string-courses

It has big cable string-courses and brackets of lions' heads and necks, and a large and imposing window on the first floor. In the eighteenth century the circuit of the walls was about a mile. There were two principal gates the Porta a Mare and the Porta a Terra and two posterns made for the convenience of the inhabitants.

F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson - The Shores of the Adriatic: The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia

Nor was it in their welding of the bricks alone that these craftsmen showed their science. They were wont to enrich the surface with marble, sparingly but effectively employed as in those slender detached columns, which add such beauty to the octagon of S. Gottardo, or in the string-courses of strange beasts and reptiles that adorn the church fronts of Pavia.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

Arched Entrance Halls. Domes resting on Pendentives. Suites of Apartments. Ornamentation: Exterior, by Pilasters, Cornices, String-courses, and shallow arched Recesses, with Pilasters between them; Interior, by Pillars supporting Transverse Bibs,or by Door-ways and False Windows, like the Persopolitan. Specimen Palaces at Serbistan, at Firuzbad, at Ctesiphon, at Mashita.

George Rawlinson - The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire : The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.