bargeboards

Updated: May 27, 2025

The difference between burgh and champaign was increased, too, by sounds which now reached them above others the notes of a brass band. The travellers returned into the High Street, where there were timber houses with overhanging stories, whose small-paned lattices were screened by dimity curtains on a drawing-string, and under whose bargeboards old cobwebs waved in the breeze.

Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge