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DOSSERET

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 438 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOSSERET , or See also:

impost See also:block (a Fr. See also:term, from dos, back), in See also:architecture, the cubical block of See also:stone above the capitals in a See also:Byzantine See also:church, used to carry the See also:arches and vault, the springing of which had a superficial See also:area greatly in excess of the See also:column which carried them.

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