Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having teeth or notches; marked with notched or indentations. Also written
dentillated .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Toothed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
toothed
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Examples
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The main difference between 1793 Liberty Cap Cents and those Liberty Cap Cents dating from 1794 to 1796 is that the 1793s have beaded borders while the later Liberty Caps have dentilated borders.
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The main difference between 1793 Liberty Cap Cents and those Liberty Cap Cents dating from 1794 to 1796 is that the 1793s have beaded borders while the later Liberty Caps have dentilated borders.
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Here, a huge boulder balances itself on a number of small fragments; there, rises a wall of slender, light, porous rocks with dentilated edges and openwork decoration like a Moorish building; farther on, an obelisk of basalt, whose sides an artist seems to have carved and polished, stands upon a crenelated bastion; in another place, a gothic fortress is crumbling to decay beside a curious, shapeless pagoda.
Indiana 1900
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Its pointed windows, its dentilated battlements, its miniature turrets, would have been impressive on a larger scale, in stone, but being of wood, in a reduced proportion, they appeared an inadequate plagiarism, which not even the extensive grounds could shield from criticism.
The Mayor of Warwick Herbert M��ller Hopkins 1890
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The characteristic elements of the order are, as in the Roman Ionic, the scrolled capital and the dentilated cornice one which sports a row of dentils or small blocks underneath, while, in Hellenistic buildings, the frieze is frequently omitted.
The Guardian World News Dale Berning 2011
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The frieze is often lavishly sculpted and surmounted by a dentilated cornice.
The Guardian World News Dale Berning 2011
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