Between the slab and the black marble base is a double arcade of carved alabaster delicately embellished with trefoil arches, crocket capitals, and pinnacles. |
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The glass box is the period at the end of architectural history, the final erasure of every pinnacle, crocket, pediment and entablature that ornamented the last few thousand years' worth of history. |
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Outside, the garden glows from loving care and there is also an outdoor swimming pool, badminton and crocket courts for the entertainment of the guests. |
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Crocket, in architecture, a small, independent, sharply projecting medieval ornament, usually occurring in rows, and decorated with foliage. |
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You will see many minke whales as well as the star performer Captain Crocket, a renowned finback whale and her offspring. |
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The Mountaineering Council of Scotland has published an explicit pamphlet guiding visitors on how to dispose of their own waste which Crocket described as idiot-proof. |
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