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pampre.
1. Representation of vine-stems with grapes, often found draped in spirals around columns, suggesting the twisted Trajanic or Solomonic form.

2. Grapes, leaves, and vine-stems as running undercut ornament in cavettos and other continuous hollows at the tops of Perpendicular Gothic screens called trail.

Bibliography

Bond & and Camm (1909)

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