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- CORBEL A kind of bracket composed of a single projecting block, or of several graduated projecting courses of masonry, providing a ledge.
- CORNICE The uppermost portion of an entablature; often used to indicate the projecting horizontal element (to shed rainwater and for decoration) at the top of a building, or a similar feature (often in plaster) at the top of the wall of a room.
- COUNTERSCARP In military architecture, the outer wall of a ditch.
- COURSE A single horizontal row of brick, stone, or other walling material.
- COVE A concave moulding or recess, usually where a ceiling adjoins a wall.
- CRENELLATED See battlement.
- CRENELLATION A regular series of gaps in the low wall at the edge of a roof.
- CRÈPI A lime plaster used as a coating on stone buildings, particularly in New France, to protect the wall and the mortar joints from the weather.
- CRESTING A decorative rail, or a row of finials, or another feature at the top of a building, often along the ridge of the roof.
- CROCKET An upwardly projecting repeated decorative element, often along spires and gables in Gothic Re-vival architecture.
- CUPOLA A feature at the top of a roof, usually dome-shaped and opened up by windows or columns.
- CURTAIN In military architecture, a wall.
- CURTAIN WALL An exterior wall that is fastened to a frame and protects the building from the weather; it has no structural function, and supports only, its own weight.
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