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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARGEBOARD (probably from Med. See also:Lat. bargus, or barcus, a See also:scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym " vergeboard ") , the boards fastened to the projecting gables of a roof to give strength to the same and to See also:mask or hide the See also:horizontal timbers of the roof to which they were attached. Bargeboards are some-times moulded only or carved, but as a See also:rule the See also:lower edges were cusped and had See also:tracery in the spandrels besides being otherwise elaborated. The richest example is one at Ockwells in See also:Berkshire, See also:England, which is moulded and carved as if it were intended for See also:internal See also:work.

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