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Bow-front
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Semicircular or semi-elliptical bow-fronts were the height of architectural fashion throughout the late Georgian period. (To appreciate their significance one has only to remember that they were the most prominent features of the original Brighton Pavilion. With their graded effects of light and shade and their soft forms they did much to introduce a note of graceful sophistication wherever they were used, and nowhere more so than on farmhouses on the far-distant Cape frontier.)