Arch. [a. F. congé, same word as CONGEE, leave, etc., used as a rendering of Gr. ἀποφυγή escape, APOPHYGE.] See quots.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purch., 117. Conges, in Architecture, are the Rings, or Ferrils … in the Extremities of Wooden-pillars, to keep ’em from splitting, afterwards imitated in Stone-work.
1842–76. Gwilt, Encycl. Arch., Congé, an apophyge.
