Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Architecture A narrow, flat molding.
- n. Printing A flat piece of wood used to separate lines of type.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In printing, a thin strip of wood, less than type-high, used in composition to make blanks about a page, or between the lines of large types in open display. Reglets are made of the width of ordinary text-types, from pearl to great primer. Broader strips of wood are known as furniture.
- n. In architecture, a narrow flat molding, employed to separate panels or other members, or to form knots, frets, and other ornaments.
Wiktionary
- n. construction A sheet-metal receiver for the attachment of counterflashing. A reglet may be surface-mounted, inset into a raggle or embedded behind cladding.
- n. architecture A flat, narrow moulding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments.
- n. printing A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title pages and other open matter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Arch.) A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See illust. (12) of column.
- n. (Print.) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches.
Etymologies
- French réglet. (Wiktionary)
- French réglet, from Old French, diminutive of regle, ruler, from Latin rēgula, rod. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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phrontistery-r
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wallace
Remington, Windsor, prorector, wen, aver, mottle, seltzer, tepee, lapidary, effete, sotto, presbyopia and 355 more...
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Letterrorists
A bunch of -let words, emphasis on the diminutive. Feel free to neologize.
booklet, flatlet, haslet, nutlet, platelet, streamlet, varlet, aglet, gablet, leaflet, piglet, ringlet and 504 more...
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OvoloOvoloOvoloOvoloOvoloOvolo
Decorative trims and moldings and their elements, from room-scale to whole-building-scale, including, of course, ovolo.
egg and dart, echinus, drip cap, fluting fillet, rosette, scotia, screen molding, picture rail, chair rail, quarter-round, crown molding, bandelet and 56 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Word Gems
foist, coercion, abecedism, abiectic, abigeus, abiogenesis, ablaut, thunderstruck, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, filagree, blotto and 196 more...
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DFW
apocope, bolection, reglet, dipsomania, quincunx, varicoceles, simpatico, aleatory, experialist, agnate, pedalferrous, fulvous and 80 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words encountered while reading "Infinite Jest". I'm sure I'm not the only person to have a list like this.
creatus, enfilade, ad valorem, pargeted, phobic stressor, howling fantods, apocope, bolection, reglet, technical feck, muscimole, psychodysleptic and 28 more...
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