mutule

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Three rows of six guttae each are attached to the under surface of a mutule.

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  1. noun A projecting rectangular block or bracket situated above the triglyph and beneath the corona of a Doric cornice.

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  • Three rows of six guttae each are attached to the under surface of a mutule. —  A History of Greek Art
  • "Proceed, please, to the next subject, Merula For turtle doves," said Merula, "in like manner a house should be constructed proportioned to the number you intend to feed, and this, like the pigeon house, I have described, should have a door and windows and fresh water and walls and a vaulted roof, but in place of breeding nests the mutules should be extended through the walls or poles set in them in regular order with hempen mats on them, the lowest rank being not more than three feet from the floor, the rest at intervals of nine inches, the top rank six inches from the vault, and of equal breadth as the mutule stands out from the wall. —  Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro
 

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  1. Latin mutulus.

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  1. =F. mutule = Italian mutulo, from Latin mutulus, a mutule, modillion.
 

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