sub-Order
sub-Order.
1. Order of architecture inferior to the dominant structural Order, as in Palladio's Basilica, Vicenza, where the subsidiary Order forms part of a serliana, and the dominant Orders carry the intermediate and crowning entablatures.
2. In Romanesque and Gothic doorways, with a series of Orders, the smaller or inferior Orders.
1. Order of architecture inferior to the dominant structural Order, as in Palladio's Basilica, Vicenza, where the subsidiary Order forms part of a serliana, and the dominant Orders carry the intermediate and crowning entablatures.
2. In Romanesque and Gothic doorways, with a series of Orders, the smaller or inferior Orders.
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