Arch. Also 7 fuserole, 9 fusurole. [a. F. fusarolle, ad. It. fusaruola, later fusajuola, alteration of fusaruolo (fusajuolo) spindle-whorl, f. L. fūsus spindle.] (See quots.)

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1664.  Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Archit., 128. A smaller Bracelet again which incircles the Capitel under the Voluta in the Composita, taken for the Fuserole.

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1704.  in Harris, Lex. Techn.

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[1715.  Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), I. 23. The Composite Order has … the Voluta, Ovolo, and Fusarolo, or Fuse, which are Members of the Ionick Capitel.]

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1852.  P. Nicholson’s Dict. Archit., Fusurole, Fusarole.

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1859.  Gwilt, Archit., Gloss., Fusarole, a member whose section is that of a semicircle carved into beads. It is generally placed under the echinus, or quarter round of columns in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders.

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