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Interlaced arches A scheme of decoration employed in Romanesque and Gothic architecture, where arches are thrown from alternate piers , interlacing or intersecting one another. In the former case, the first arch mould is carried alternately over and under the second, in the latter the mouldings actually intersect and stop one another.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Interlace or interlacing may refer to: Interlace (art), a decorative element found especially in early Medieval art in Northern Europe; Interlacing (bitmaps), a method of incrementally displaying raster graphics; Interlaced video is a technique of doubling the perceived frame rate without consuming extra bandwidth
[1] [2] [3] While the term "lacertine" itself means "lizard-like," [4] its use to describe interlace is a 19th-century neologism and not limited to interlace of reptilian forms. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] In addition to lizards, [ 6 ] lacertine decoration often features animals such as birds , lions , and dogs .
Interlace and knotwork are often found in Byzantine art, continuing Roman usage, but they are not given great prominence. One notable example of a widespread local usage of interlace is the three-ribbon interlace found in the early medieval Croatia on stone carvings from the 9th to 11th centuries.
A wattle and daub house as used by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture. The wattle and daub technique has been used since the Neolithic period. It was common for houses of Linear pottery and Rössen cultures of middle Europe, but is also found in Western Asia (Çatalhöyük, Shillourokambos) as well as in North America (Mississippian culture) and South America ().