Usage examples (26)

• This façade is of the fifteenth century and on the tympan of the dormer windows one may still see the monogram of its builder,
• The "thing" presented here is an unadorned image of Hone's printing press, an iron Stanhope with the tympan raised to the right.
• After the impression had been taken, the platen was screwed up, the bed "run out," the tympan frame and frisket lifted, and the printed sheet taken off.
• When the sheets of paper had been placed upon the tympan frame, the frisket was folded down upon it, and the two were then turned down over the form of type.