Architecture

"It is enough that he [man] be as one of the towers or houses 
 among the dwellings of a walled city, as bars and gates, as I 
 have shown you the pattern of the house and the pattern of 
 its instruments, as the House of the Soul, for he has lower, 
 second and a third stories, and an attic and roof above, and 
 walls round about, and corners of the house."

    - Tobias Cohen, Ma'aseh Tuviyah (1708)

Lexicon

basilica: an oblong building ending in a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome
cupola: relatively small dome/domelike structure on top of a building
gargoyle: a grotesque roof spout projecting from a gutter to carry rainwater clear of the wall
natatorium: an indoor swimming pool
oubliette: dungeon with a trapdoor in the ceiling as its only means of entrance or exit
volute: a spiral, scroll-like ornament, such as that used on an Ionic capital

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