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A female architect.

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  • FEMALE
    A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
  • ARCHITECTURAL
    Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.
  • ARCHITECTRESS
    A female architect.
  • ARCHITECTONIC
    1. The science of architecture. 2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system.
  • ARCHITECTONIC; ARCHITECTONICAL
    1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. 2. Relating to
  • ARCHITECT
    1. A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed. 2. A contriver, designer, or maker. The architects of their
  • ARCHITECTONICS
    The science of architecture.
  • FEMALE FERN
    a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
  • ARCHITECTOR
    An architect. North.
  • ARCHITECTIVE
    Used in building; proper for building. Derham.
  • ARCHITECTURE
    1. 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. Ruskin. 3.
  • FEMALE RHYMES
    double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
  • GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
    British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
  • NEOCLASSIC ARCHITECTURE
    All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

 

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