ashlar

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The syncopation of transparent and opaque windows, alternating with ashlar panels, can suggest the patterns of kente cloth.

From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022

When he began with Bambridge, it took him three days to make an ashlar.

From Time Magazine Archive

The so-called tomb of Leonidas, a square chamber built with huge blocks of ashlar masonry, of which three courses remain, appears like building of the best period, but its history is wholly unknown.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.

This latter is of Perpendicular date, very plain, but of excellent ashlar work; it has a clock and six bells. 

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway

The well, a plain ashlar pipe six feet in diameter, is in the south-western angle of the floor in the western chamber.

From Memorials of Old London Volume I by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)