rudenture Arch.
[a. F. rudenture (16th c.): cf. prec.]
(See quots.)
There is no evidence that this or the two prec. words have ever been in actual English use.
| 1723 Chambers tr. Le Clerc's Treat. Arch. I. 73 By a Rudenture we mean the Figure of a Rope or Staff cut, on some occasions, in the Flutings, to strengthen their sides. 1728 ― Cycl., Rudenture,..the Figure of a Rope or Staff, sometimes plain sometimes carv'd, wherewith a third Part of the Flutings of Columns are frequently filled up. [Hence in various later Dicts.] |