MEANING
A horizontal course or band of masonry extending across a building’s exterior.
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- masonry belt course
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A belt course ran beneath the upper windows.
The masonry belt course united the façades.
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- Base
- belt course
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular belt course; plural belt courses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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