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- noun Plural form of
ashlar .
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Examples
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Elements being the _designs_ of the great Architect upon which each structure has been built; and these completed designs again are used and become the "ashlars" of the higher forms of plant and animal structure.
Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893
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Layers and blocks of distinct substances were plain to see, like separate ashlars laid by an elvish mason-where they were not so huge that a giant must have been at work.
The Clique 2010
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Some of these were furnished with ashlars and more elaborate architectural fragments (columns, benches, doorlintels, …).
Territorial Archaeological Survey « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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Some of these were furnished with ashlars and more elaborate architectural fragments (columns, benches, doorlintels, …).
Territorial Archaeological Survey « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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These sectors did not provide much material, being mostly tiles coming from the roof and collapsed wall ashlars.
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A central hall, much higher than the crosses 'four arms, is delimited by four massive piers made of huge, marble clad ashlars, and possibly contained a pool (natatio) in its center.
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The three other sides of the room have walls composed of mostly re-used material (ashlars) combined with mortared rubble and bricks.
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These sectors did not produce many finds, mostly tile, brick, ashlars, marble wall veneer, and stucco.
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In the southwestern corner of the room, the plaster imitated ashlars with drafted edges.
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Two small doors in the southern and eastern curved recesses surrounding the large pool gave access to, respectively, a service corridor to the south (Co 4 on the map) and to the still unexcavated hall with six piers of large ashlars east of the frigidarium.
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