The height of the capital is to be such that, of the nine and a half parts, three parts are below the level of the astragal at the top of the shaft, and the rest, omitting the abacus and the channel, belongs to its echinus.
Above the cymatium of the lintel, place the frieze of the doorway, of the same height as the lintel, and having a Doric cymatium and Lesbian astragal carved upon it.
The style of carving of the cymatium with its astragalshould be the Lesbian.
An ovolo of conventional egg and dart motive with the customary bead and reel astragal outlines the black marble facings of the fireplace opening.
A cavetto molding, enriched with a bead and reel astragal and another drilled rope torus, outlines the dark marble facings about the fireplace opening.
An astragal with the customary bead and reel separates the cymatium and the corona, while a drilled rope supplies the bed molding above the dentil course.
It is distinguished from the astragal because it casts less of a shadow above and below.
For a great overhang you may use the cavetto, or the apophyges, and below that the astragal or the torus; and for the base the casement is the most serviceable molding, and it may be finished off with the ovolo or the cymatium.
Anthemion andastragal moulding from the Lat (stone column) at Allahabad; from Birdwood, after Fergusson.
Anthemion andastragal moulding from the Lat at Allahabad; from Birdwood, after Fergusson.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astragal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
