projecture

English

Etymology

Latin projectura: compare French projecture.

Noun

projecture (plural projectures)

1. (archaic) Something that juts out beyond a surface; a projection.
   • 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly, or The Sleep Walker, Chapter 10:

     I now found myself on the projecture of a rock: above and below, the hill-side was nearly perpendicular. Opposite, at the distance of fifteen or twenty yards, was a similar ascent: at the bottom was a glen, cold, narrow, and obscure. The projecture, which served as a kind of vestibule to the cave, was connected with a ledge, by which, though not without peril and toil, I was conducted to the summit.

References

• “projecture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Noun

projecture f (plural projectures)

1. projecture

Further reading

• “projecture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Participle

prōjectūre

1. vocative masculine singular of prōjectūrus