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This text was translated and adapted from French Wikipedia's Saillie (architecture), revision 233835586 (6 March 2026). The source revision was retrieved on 25 September 2026. All 23 glossary entries and the eight illustrations are retained, with changes to terminology, citation details and captions described below.
Title:Projection (architecture) follows the English equivalent given in the Office québécois de la langue française's entry for saillie. The lead distinguishes a projecting element from the distance it extends beyond the wall face.
Historical scope: the glossary is explicitly attributed to J. M. R. Morisot's 1814 vocabulary. Definitions such as a balcony made of stone describe the cited historical usage; they are not presented as exhaustive definitions of modern construction.
French terms:bandeau, cordon, corps, empaume, naissance, oreille and porte-à-faux are retained with explanations where a short English equivalent could obscure the historical meaning. Nu and face are likewise identified as French terminology. Pierres d'attente is rendered as toothing stones, supported by the GDT entry for harpe.
Projection and support: the French article treats en surplomb, en encorbellement and en saillie as interchangeable. The adaptation instead describes overhanging and corbelled elements as forms of projection. Morisot's broad definition of porter à faux is preserved without equating it with the narrower modern structural term cantilever.
Clarified examples: the naissance entry explains vault springing and the curved transition to a column shaft from Morisot's definitions. The projecting timber upper storeys in the gallery are described as jettied.
The definitions were checked against the text of the digitized 1814 volume. Its title page identifies it as Vocabulaires des arts et métiers, en ce qui concerne les constructions, volume 5, a continuation of Tableaux détaillés des prix de tous les ouvrages de bâtiment. The bibliography describes this consulted volume, published in Paris by the author, rather than repeating the French article's Carilian attribution. The separate Wikisource transcription is incomplete, so the scan was used for the missing material.
The following page references were corrected. These are printed pages in the masonry vocabulary; the corresponding PDF page numbers are 14 greater.
