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noun

Architecture n.

The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; often called civil architecture. "Many other architectures besides Gothic."

Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. "The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees." "The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture."

Military architecture, the art of fortifications.

Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

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Etymology of 'Architecture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child

... talk about how they came to do it, and how delightfully livable they found it. You could work it up with some architect, who would help you to 'keep off the grass' in the way of technical blunders. With all this tendency to the classic in public architecture, I don't see why the Pompeian villa shouldn't be the ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... of a talkative, pretty girl, but a hero and a conqueror when with a suffering, anxious human being, beseeching his aid. His left-hand neighbour, the wife of a Frankfort banker, who chatted rapidly about the architecture of the dining-hall and the Wagner performances at Bayreuth, received monosyllabic, hesitating replies, while he talked eloquently to the lady on his right, the hostess, upon the influence of modern ...

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... went to Cincinnati and attended the harvest home festival in Green township, and read an address on the life and work of A. J. Downing, a noted horticulturalist and writer on rural architecture. I have always been interested in such subjects and was conversant with Downing's writings and works, especially with his improvement of the public parks in and about Washington. He was employed by the President of the United States in 1851, to lay out and superintend the improvement of ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

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