DEC. } The Gothic architecture of the fourteenth century DECORATED. } in England. _Abbreviated_ Dec. DETAIL.--The minuter features of a design or building, especially its mouldings and carving. DIAPER (Gothic).--An uniform pattern of leaves or flowers carved or painted on the surface of a wall. [Illustration: FIG. _S_.--DIAPER IN SPANDREL, FROM WESTMINSTER ABBEY.] DOGTOOTH.--A sharply-pointed ornament in a hollow moulding which is peculiar to Early English Gothic. It somewhat resembles a blunt tooth. DORMER WINDOW.--A window pierced through a sloping roof and placed under a small gable or roof of its own. DOME.--A cupola or spherical convex roof, ordinarily circular on plan. DOMICAL VAULTING.--Vaulting in which a series of small domes are employed; in contradistinction to a waggon-head vault, or an intersecting vault. DOUBLE TRACERY.--Two layers of tracery one behind the other and with a clear space between. E. E. } The Gothic architecture of England in the EARLY ENGLISH. } thirteenth century. _Abbreviated_ E. E. EAVES.--The verge or edge of a roof overhanging the wall. EAVES-COURSE.--A moulding carrying the eaves. ELEVATION.--(1) A geometrical drawing of part of the exterior or interior walls of a building; (2) the architectural treatment of the exterior or interior walls of a building. ELIZABETHAN.--The architecture of England in, and for some time after, the reign of Elizabeth. EMBATTLED.--Finished with battlements, or in imitation of battlements. ENRICHMENTS.--The carved (or coloured) decorations applied to the mouldings or other features of an architectural design. (See Mouldings.) ENTABLATURE (in Classic and Renaissance architecture).--The superstructure above the columns where an order is employed. It is divided into the architrave, which rests on the columns, the frieze and the cornice. FAÇADE.--The front of a building or of a principal part of a building. FAN VAULT.--The vaulting in use in England in the fifteenth century, in which a series of conoids bearing some resemblance to an open fan are employed. FILLET.--A small moulding of square flat section. [Illustration: FIG. _T_.--PERPENDICULAR FINIAL.] FINIAL.--A formally arranged bunch of foliage or other similar ornament forming the top of a pinnacle, gablet, or other ornamented feature of Gothic architecture. FLAMBOYANT STYLE.--The late Gothic architecture of France at the end of the fifteenth century, so called from the occurrence of flame-shaped forms in the tracery. FLÈCHE.--A name adapted from the French. A slender spire, mostly placed on a roof; not often so called if on a tower.