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Pise  n.  (Arch.) A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; called also pisé work.






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... they preferred brick, into the management of which, however, they introduced certain modifications of their own. The crude brick of Nineveh and its neighbourhood was used while damp, and, when put in place, did not greatly differ from pise.[171] Spread out in wide horizontal courses, the slabs of soft clay adhered one to another by their plasticity, through the effect of the water with which they were impregnated and that of the pressure exercised by the courses above.[172] The building was thus, in effect, nothing ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot



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