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Denticulation - Finely toothed or notched; having dentils (a dentil is one of a series of small rectangular blocks projecting from a moulding or beneath a cornice).
Detached - separate, unconnected especially not sharing any wall with another building.
Distyle in antis - Having two columns
Doric order - One of the three orders or organisational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture characterised by columns which stood on the flat pavement of a temple without a base, their vertical shafts fluted with parallel concave grooves topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam that they carried.
Dormer - A structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface.
Dosseret, or impost block - Cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church, used to carry the arches and vault, the springing of which had a superficial area greatly in excess of the column which carried them
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Flemish gable (see also clock gable) - gable whose sides have a shape made up of one or more curves and has a pediment at the top.
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