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Dressings / accents
- all embracing term, used to describe stones worked to a smooth
face and used to form features such as
string courses or window margins which contrasts
with the surrounding facing material. Dressed stonework is
any stone which has been cut to a smooth face. Stone dressings in a brick
building are sometimes referred to
as "accents." Dressing is the cutting, or abrading down of a material to its finished size