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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fartura

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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. 

FARTU'RA. The cramming, or fattening of poultry (Columell. viii. 7. 4.); whence the term was adopted by builders to designate the mass of rubble employed for filling up the internal part of a wall between the outside surfaces, when the wall was not constructed of solid masonry or brickwork (Vitruv. ii. 8. 7.), as shown by the annexed specimen (Fartura/1.1) of Roman building.

  • Fartura/1.1
    Fartura/1.1

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