LL-L: "Gezelligheid" LOWLANDS-L, 04.JUN.2001 (04) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Gezelligheid"

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Gezelligheid
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> Dutch and North German architectures are quite similar in the great scheme
> of things (including the _norddeutsche Backsteingothik_ 'North German
> Gothic brick  architecture' with its stepped gable tops).  However, I have
> often wondered about the larger size of "Dutch" windows and those
> curtainless "Dutch" windows.  So I welcome your questions.

These "stepped gable tops" are also a distinctive feature of
Scottish architecture (we call them "crawsteps"). You see
them all over the place in every town in Scotland but I don't
think I've ever seen any at all in England or Wales.

I've never heard of anyone having large windows and no curtains
in Scotland, however - though houses with no doors (nor even
doorways) on the ground floor were once common!

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
                          - C.W.Wade,
                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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