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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective An ornament in a Doric frieze, consisting of a projecting block having on its face two parallel vertical glyphs or grooves and two half grooves or chamfers on either vertical end, that separates the metopes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a structural member in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals, usually over every column and over the middle of every intercolumniation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called
glyphs , into three parts, or spaces, calledfemora . A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. SeeIllust. ofentablature .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture A term for the
vertically channeled tablets of the Doricfrieze .
Etymologies
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Really, it's not unlike all those millions of Americans huddling around their kitchen tables right now trying to figure out their own budgets .. except instead of a kitchen table it will be convened at one that seats 16 people and is made of polished wood and instead of an actual kitchen they'll be flanked by the ornate false skylight and triglyph molding of the Roosevelt room.
HUFFPOST HILL - White House Budget Meeting Tomorrow Eliot Nelson 2011
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Really, it's not unlike all those millions of Americans huddling around their kitchen tables right now trying to figure out their own budgets .. except instead of a kitchen table it will be convened at one that seats 16 people and is made of polished wood and instead of an actual kitchen they'll be flanked by the ornate false skylight and triglyph molding of the Roosevelt room.
HUFFPOST HILL - White House Budget Meeting Tomorrow Eliot Nelson 2011
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For the fitting together of the stones is different from the fluting of the column, and these are both different from the making of the temple; and the making of the temple is complete (for it lacks nothing with a view to the end proposed), but the making of the base or of the triglyph is incomplete; for each is the making of only a part.
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002
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Those who would make the metopes all alike, make the outermost intercolumniations narrower by half the width of a triglyph.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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Thus, over each portion of the architrave two metopes and two triglyphs [3] will be placed; and, in addition, at the corners half a triglyph and besides a space large enough for a half triglyph.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The difficulty was, that if the triglyph was placed on the angle of the building (the practice of the Greeks) and the next triglyph was placed over the axis of the column, the metope (or panel) between these two triglyphs would be larger than the metopes between the triglyphs axial over the other columns.
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Greeks solved it by reducing the width of the end intercolumniation, but later critics disliked this, and solved it by removing the end triglyph from the angle and placing it axial over the end column.
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[Note 3: That is: two metopes with a triglyph between them, and half of the triglyph on either side.] 9.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The width of the triglyph should be divided into six parts, and five of these marked off in the middle by means of the rule, and two half parts at the right and left.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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Corinthian columns, composed either of the Doric proportions or according to the Ionic usages; for the Corinthian order never had any scheme peculiar to itself for its cornices or other ornaments, but may have mutules in the coronae and guttae on the architraves according to the triglyph system of the Doric style, or, according to Ionic practices, it may be arranged with a frieze adorned with sculptures and accompanied with dentils and coronae.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
super-kawy commented on the word triglyph
An ornament in a Doric frieze, consisting of a projecting block having on its face two parallel vertical glyphs or grooves and two half grooves or chamfers on either vertical end, that separates the metopes.
September 22, 2009