Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pavonaceum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PAVONA'CEUM, sc. opus or tectum. A method of laying tiles of brick or marble, similar to what is seen upon the roofs of old houses in England, Holland, and Germany, in which the tiles are rounded at one end, so that in overlapping, each other they present an appearance like the feathers of a peacock's tail, exhibited by the annexed example (Pavonaceum/1.1), from a marble fragment excavated in the Forum of Trajan. Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 44.

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