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"RAMSHACKLE, adj. Pertaining to a certain order of
architecture, otherwise known as the Normal American. Most of the public
buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of
our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White
House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians.
They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick."
- Ambrose Bierce, from The Devil's
Dictionary, 1911.
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