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flèche: see spire spire, high, tapering structure crowning a tower and having a general pyramidal outline. The simplest spires were the steeply pitched timber roofs capping Romanesque towers and campaniles. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Le Fleche A, Postic D, Girardet K, Peter O, Baranton G. Anne Fleche maintains that the dramatic conflict shifts in the course of the play from that between the brother and the sister to that between "their family and Sutter" (10). Precedents for the chimneys are to be found in Barry and Pugin's building, where a ventilation expert Dr Reid, required large vertical ducts that Pugin used as opportunities to make the central fleche and what Pevsner called pretty turrets. |
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