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Cornish ( Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek; [8] [kəɾˈnuːək]) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. Along with Welsh and Breton, Cornish is descended from the Common Brittonic language spoken throughout much of Great Britain before the English language came to dominate.
A total of 83,499 people in England and Wales were described as having a Cornish national identity. 59,456 of these were described as Cornish only, 6,261 as Cornish and British, and 17,782 as Cornish and at least one other identity, with or without British.
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- In Classical Architecture
- In Modern Residential Architecture
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In Ancient Greek architecture and its successors using the classical orders in the tradition of classical architecture, the cornice is the topmost element of the entablature, which consists (from top to bottom) of the cornice, the frieze, and the architrave. Where a triangular pediment is above the entablature, the cornice continues all round the t...
Rake
A rake is an architectural term for an eave or cornice which runs along the gable of the roof of a modern residential structure. It may also be called a sloping cornice, a raking cornice. The trim and rafters at this edge are called rakes, rake board, rake fascia, verge-boards, barge-boards or verge- or barge-rafters. It is a sloped timber on the outside facing edge of a roof running between the ridge and the eave. On a typical house, any gable will have two rakes, one on each sloped side. Th...
Types
The cornices of a modern residential building will usually be one of three types: a box cornice, a close or closed cornice, or an open cornice.: p.63
Cornice return
A cornice return is an architectural detail that occurs where the horizontal cornice of a roof connects to the rake of a gable.: p.67 It is a short horizontal extension of the cornice that occurs on each side of the gable end of the building (see picture of Härnösands rådhus with two of these). The two most common types of cornice return are the Greek return and the soffit return (also called a boxed or boxsoffit return). The former includes a sloped hip-shape on the inside of the cornice und...
The term cornice may also be used to describe a form of hard window treatmentalong the top edge of a window. When used in this context, a cornice represents a board (usually wood) placed above the window to conceal the mechanism for opening and closing drapes. If covered in a layer of cloth and given padding, it is sometimes called a soft cornice r...
Projecting cornice of a painted wooden ItalianateresidenceThe Wainwright Building by Louis SullivanCornice with running leaf pattern from Nishapur, 10th century, exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art(New York City)Roman cornice of ionic order, from Imperial palace on the Palatine hill in Rome (Flavian epoch)Cornish (Cornish: Kernewek) is a very old language from Cornwall in the southwest of England. Cornish is a Celtic language and is very similar to Welsh and is related to Gaelic .
Aug 4, 2008 · A final e mute was often used to lengthen a vowel, as in English. Many names of places and persons retain p. 61 this e mute at the present day, and when the preceding vowel is a, educated persons generally give it the sound of the English long a in mane, but that is a change analogous to the modern vulgarism of pronouncing clerk as clurk instead of clark.
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