Crossword-Solution: FRONTONS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Chapter VII., Terra-cotta: History--Manufacture--Application: Balustrades, Columns, Pilasters, Capitals, Friezes, Frontons, Medallions, Panels, Rose-windows, Ceilings--Appendix: Official Methods of Testing Terra-cottas.

These porticos and their frontons are ornamented with a great many statues and bas-reliefs, some of which pulled down during the revolution, have since been replaced.

The imposing entrance court is a hundred and twelve metres in width by a hundred and fifty-two metres in length, and to see it as it was originally, before the destruction of the Galerie d'Ulysse, one must imagine it as closed in by a series of small pavilions with their frontons of colonnettes preceded only by a staircase and two drawbridges crossing the moat, which at that time surrounded the entire confines of the palace.

For passing from the Imitation of the Natural to that of Artificial, they invented all the Ornaments of Edifices that were most curiously wrought, in giving them the Form and Shape of those things that are simply necessary to the most natural Buildings: And the Pieces of Timber of which the Roofs and Floors of Houses are made, were the Original of _Pillars_, _Architraves_, _Frises_, _Triglyphs_, _Mutils_, _Brackets_, _Corniches_, _Frontons_ or _Piediments_, which are made of Stone or Marble.

The _Frontons_ are made in imitation of the _Firms_ or _Girders_, upon which is laid the Roof of the House.