Alure
Alure (O. Fr., from oiler, "to walk"), is an architectural term for an alley, passage, the water-way or flat gutter behind a parapet, the galleries of a clerestory, or sometimes even the aisle itself of a church. The term is sometimes written valure or valoring.
References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. James Stevens Curl. Oxford University Press 2006
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