"spolia" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, Salvatore Settis, The Classical Tradition, page 904:",
          "text": "In the field of architecture the use of spolia began with Constantine.",
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          "ref": "2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 305:",
          "text": "The sultan did not so much destroy and rebuild as adapt and embroider, reusing the gorgeous spolia of the Crusaders with their foliate patterns, capitals and wetleaf acanthus; his architecture is thus constructed with the very symbols of his enemies, which makes it hard to distinguish between the buildings of the Crusaders and Saladin.",
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          "ref": "2016, Zeynep Yürekli, Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire, page 140:",
          "text": "The conspicuous use of spolia in the Mihaloğlu buildings of the shrine of Syyid Gazi is a remarkable departure from the dominant architectural culture of the time.",
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        "Old objects, artifacts, and/or sculptural elements reused in a later work of architecture."
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  "word": "spolia"
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          "text": "The sultan did not so much destroy and rebuild as adapt and embroider, reusing the gorgeous spolia of the Crusaders with their foliate patterns, capitals and wetleaf acanthus; his architecture is thus constructed with the very symbols of his enemies, which makes it hard to distinguish between the buildings of the Crusaders and Saladin.",
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