[Regia-NA] getelds

[Carolyn Priest-Dorman]

Okay, second time.  (Tried to anaswer this yesterday but lost the response
in a catastrophic power failure!  Fortunately everything's okay.)  Osweald
wrote:

>Belled apses? Is that what they are? Kind of looks like a plains Indian=20
>tipi...

Maybe due to the foreshortening in the photo?  The short sides of the tent
(would you call them gables?) are semicircular and staked to give a rounded
floorplan.  Hence the belling.  I call them apses because they look like
the little half-round ends on early churches, and it's the shortest way I
know of to refer to that sort of a rounded end stuck on a rectangle.


Carolyn Priest-Dorman              =DE=F3ra Sharptooth
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