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Lucarne
Small gabled opening in a roof or spire.
Luckenbooth
(Scots): Lock-up booth or shop.
Lugged
Of an
architrave
(a formalized lintel), with side projections at the top. Also called an
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Lunette
Semicircular window or blind panel.
Lychgate
(lit. corpse-gate): Roofed gateway entrance to a churchyard for the reception of a coffin.
Lynchet
Long terraced strip of soil on the downward side of prehistoric and medieval fields, accumulated because of continual ploughing along the contours.
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