triglyph

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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.

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  1. adjective Architecture 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.

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  • At the end of every table rose a triglyph, two strong wooden posts with lintel; on the lintel stood spiked the ox's head, ox's hide hanging beneath it as drapery: and on the two sides of the two posts hung free the four roasted quarters of said ox; from which the common man joyfully helped himself. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • 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
  • The capitals of each triglyph are to measure one sixth of a module. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
  • Now from the same temple no trace of architrave, triglyph or cornice has been found; a fact that is true of no other building in Olympia and seems to make it certain that here wood never was replaced by stone. —  The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
  • They told him, never did such an absurdity occur in classic architecture as a triglyph on a corner! —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861
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  1. Latin trīglyphus, from Greek trigluphos : tri-, three; see trei- in Indo-European roots + gluphē, carving; see glyph.

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  1. = French triglyphe, from Latin triglyphus, from Greek τρίγλυφος, a three-grooved block in the Doric frieze, properly adjective, three-grooved, from τρεῖς (τρι -), three, + γλύφειν, carve, groove, γλυφή, a cutting, a channel: see glyph.
 

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