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Overview page. Subjects: Architecture.

1 Plain plinth or socle of a pedestal, podium, etc.

2 Fillet or list on either side of the scotia in an Attic base, and especially if used with the Ionic...

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quadra

Overview page. Subjects: Architecture.

1 Plain plinth or socle of a pedestal, podium, etc.

2 Fillet or list on either side of the scotia in an Attic base, and especially if used with the Ionic...

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quadra

James Stevens Curl.

in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

January 2006; p ublished online January 2006 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Architecture. 45 words.

1 Plain plinth or socle of a pedestal, podium, etc.

2 Fillet or list on either side of

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<span class="smallCaps">quadra-</span>

Bryan A. Garner.

in Garner’s Modern English Usage

January 2016; p ublished online August 2016 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 3 words.

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quadra

James Stevens Curl and Susan Wilson.

in The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture

January 2015; p ublished online May 2015 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Architecture. 45 words.

1. Plain *plinth or *socle of a *pedestal, *podium, etc.

2. *Fillet or

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quadra <i>noun</i>

Jennifer Speake and Mark LaFlaur.

in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English

January 1999; p ublished online January 2002 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Language Reference. 29 words.

M17 Latin (= a square).

Architecture The plinth of a podium. Also, a platband, a fillet, especially one above or

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QUADRA, Nicolás Antonio - Painter

in Benezit Dictionary of Artists

January 2006; p ublished online November 2011 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Art; Biographical Studies. 60 words.

Spanish, 17th century, male.

Active in Bilbao at the end of the 17th century.

Painter.

Nicolás Quadra is believed to have been a pupil of Claudio Coello. He is...

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Quadra, Dionisio de la

in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography

January 2016 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: History. 1223 words.

son of a Creole man and a freed slave in Nicaragua who successfully confronted legal and social discrimination toward the

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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra

Overview page. Subjects: World History — Maritime History.

(1743–1794),

Peruvian-born explorer of the Pacific Northwest coast of America. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, born a Creole in Lima, made an important contribution to the...

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Quadra, Dionisio de la (1774–1830)

in Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography

January 2016; p ublished online January 2016 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: Caribbean History. 1235 words.

son of a Creole man and a freed slave in Nicaragua who successfully confronted legal and social discrimination toward the

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de la Bodega y Quadra, Juan Francisco (1743–1794)

Michael Layland.

in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration

January 2007; p ublished online January 2007 .

Reference Entry. Subjects: World History. 334 words.

(1743–1794),

Peruvian-born explorer of the Pacific Northwest coast of America. Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra,

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