stringcourse

A thin projecting course of brickwork or stone that runs horizontally around a building, typically to emphasize the junction between floors.

Noun

  1. A thin projecting course of brickwork or stone that runs horizontally around a building, typically to emphasize the junction between floors.
    • Seismic improvements and strengthening interventions like inserting tie-rods or adding upper stringcourses, or horizontal bands, to the masonry can be designed case by case to meet specific weaknesses. - 2007 September...

Origin

From string + course.

Forms

stringcourses string course