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I've been perusing a glossary of castle terms and finding many of them terribly suggestive.
If you lived in a castle, you could walk with your lover along the allure (a walkway along the top of a wall) or lean against a chemise wall (one made of a series of small semicircular towers; I imagine it would look a bit like a ruffle made of stone). You could embrace on an embrasure (one of the low parts of the high-and-low battlement wall) or neck against a nookshaft (a small column set in an angle). Your relieving arch (an arch built to relieve pressure against another opening) could be carried by a respond (a half-pier that supports an arch).
Maybe the appeal of historical romance isn't the clothes at all but the architecture.
If you lived in a castle, you could walk with your lover along the allure (a walkway along the top of a wall) or lean against a chemise wall (one made of a series of small semicircular towers; I imagine it would look a bit like a ruffle made of stone). You could embrace on an embrasure (one of the low parts of the high-and-low battlement wall) or neck against a nookshaft (a small column set in an angle). Your relieving arch (an arch built to relieve pressure against another opening) could be carried by a respond (a half-pier that supports an arch).
Maybe the appeal of historical romance isn't the clothes at all but the architecture.
Ancient lust
On your list - and I'm, frankly, shocked that you omitted them - were such gems as:
Putlog Hole - A hole intentionally left in the surface of a wall for insertion of a horizontal pole.
Ringwork - Circular earthwork of bank and ditch
and
Double-splayed - Embrasure whose smallest aperture is in the middle of the wall.
And my Pevsner has
shaft-ring - a.k.a. 'annulet'!
engaged columns
rood stairs
groin-vaulting
strapwork
flushwork (which Constable Fraser is presumably very susceptible to)
ballflower
Oh dear, mine just look way sleazier than yours. Damn medieval romantic!
I also love the fact that this stuff is full of words like 'tierceron' and 'squinch', ready for me to write that Harry Potter follow-up, if JKR's feeling too rich and jaded to continue.
Which reminds me - literally, as I was about to hit Post Comment - your fic! ARGH! Mea very culpa indeed. I know you posted it up in your lj about a week ago too.. would you still like me to have a look for any US bogies, or are you all sorted?
Very sorry... I must have been drunk when I checked my email. Again.
Re: Ancient lust
Groin-vaulting sounds amusingly athletic, doesn't it? Like an entry in some deeply twisted Olympics.
your fic! ARGH! Mea very culpa indeed.
Don't worry -- I literally e-mailed it to you, waited half an hour, and went, "No, no, I can't wait, I gotta post this now!" But definitely let me know if you find anything that needs changing.
Transfigurations is the one that's going to need serious beta-age, and it actually seems to be getting less finished and not more so as time goes by.