- Buttress, Diagonal
- ♦ One set on the angle of a building, diagonally to each wall.(Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 410)Related terms: Buttress, Angle, Buttress
Medieval glossary. 2014.
Buttress, Diagonal
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