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 whole is built of ashlar, with a hearting of rubble; excepting the river parts of the arches, which are constructed with bricks laid in cement. 

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel

The arch is carried on three attached shafts on each side, built in ashlar, and provided with subdivided cushion caps and plain bases.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

The simple plain ashlar masonry still predominates, but the wall surface is broken up with sunk panels, sometimes with geometrical patterns in them.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various