corps de logis

noun

The principal mass of a building, excluding the wings.

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Meanings

nouncorps de logis (plural corps de logis)
  1. architectureThe principal mass of a building, excluding the wings.

Origin

  1. Frenchcorps de logis
  2. Englishcorps de logis

Unadapted borrowing from French corps de logis (literally “body of the house”).

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Translations

Finnish rakennusrunko, corps de logis
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