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Perp, perp.|pɜːp|
abbrev. perpendicular a. 3. Now freq. in colloq. allusive use. Also ellipt.
1867Murray's Handbk. Trav. Yorkshire 116/1 The great features of the exterior..are the North Porch, and the West Front... Both of these are Perp... The West Front..is as fine an example of a Perp. composition. 1894K. Baedeker Gt. Brit. (ed. 3) 407 The most striking features of the exterior [of York Minster] are the noble W. Façade (Dec.; towers, 201 ft. high, Perp.) [etc.]. 1933J. E. Morris Northumberland (ed. 3) 247 Much of the other work is modern and misleading,..the ‘Perp.’ W. window of the S. aisle, c. 1832. 1937A. Christie Dumb Witness vii. 68 Though an attractive specimen of what the guidebook calls Early Perp. it [sc. a church] had been so conscientiously restored in Victorian vandal days that little of interest remained. 1945J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 46 Grey-blue of granite in the small arcade (Late Perp). 1951N. Pevsner Middlesex 143 The tomb in the aisle chapel is purely Perp. 1957‘J. Wyndham’ Midwich Cuckoos i. i. 10 The church is mostly perp. and dec., but with a Norman west doorway and font. 1967‘M. Hunter’ Cambridgeshire Disaster ix. 60 The usual slab of village with a nice old Perp. church. 1974Sherwood & Pevsner Oxfordshire 118 The wall-shafts of the nave [of Christ Church Cathedral] have Perp. shafts with concave-sided capitals. 1974Times 10 Jan. 16/7 His love of Gothic architecture made him befriend cathedrals, abbeys and churches, particularly the Perp and Dec so abundant in East Anglia. |