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On Ruskin’s use of the word ‘order’ here see his drawing at Notebook N p.33L, and compare Paley’s definition in Paley (1845) p.10:
An arch of two or more orders is one which is recessed by so many recessive plains or retiring arches, each placed behind and beneath the next before it.
See also Willis (1835) p.117 on Italian archways which are scarcely inferior to ‘our own Norman and Early English styles’, consisting ‘of from two to five or even more orders’.
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