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
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The masonry was chiefly composed of rubble, with ashlar or squared blocks of stone at the angles, disposed in courses in a peculiar manner.
From The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam
The upper part is later work, having ashlar quoins at the four angles.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé
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 James Conway Walter