"opus spicatum" meaning in English

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          "text": "One sees in it a pediment in the Empire style on a Jesuit portico; it has rusticated galleries, colonnades like those of the Louvre, Renaissance staircases, Gothic halls, and a Roman crypt. If one were to expose the foundations, one would come upon opus spicatum and Roman cement.",
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        "(Ancient Rome) Herringbone masonry."
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        "Trajan's Market"
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