projecture
English
Etymology
Latin projectura: compare French projecture.
Noun
projecture (plural projectures)
- (archaic) Something that juts out beyond a surface; a projection.
- 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly, or The Sleep Walker, Chapter 10:
- I now found myself on the projecture of a rock: above and below, the hill-side was nearly perpendicular. Opposite, at the distance of fifteen or twenty yards, was a similar ascent: at the bottom was a glen, cold, narrow, and obscure. The projecture, which served as a kind of vestibule to the cave, was connected with a ledge, by which, though not without peril and toil, I was conducted to the summit.
References
- “projecture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Noun
projecture f (plural projectures)
Further reading
- “projecture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Participle
prōjectūre
- vocative masculine singular of prōjectūrus