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- noun Plural form of
modillion .
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Examples
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Think of the sculptures on the capitals and the modillions of churches, and the crude frankness of certain painted windows of the fifteenth century.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Think of the sculptures on the capitals and the modillions of churches, and the crude frankness of certain painted windows of the fifteenth century.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The truncated roof is fully developed, with moulded cornices of good section, the modillions being frequently carved with acanthus-leaves.
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Upon the same line, at the two extremities of the facade, two modillions, traversed through their center by palms, bear the devices "Labor" and "Peace."
Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various
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Why, Mr. Dinsmore is putting up the modillions in his pavilion.
The Centennial of the University of Virginia, 1819-1921 1922
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Smith's residence is Palladio's Ionic order with modillions; Professor
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The exterior, of Spanish-Romanesque design, is covered with ornamental details of capitals, modillions, brackets and cornices, each modeled from fish or other sea forms.
World`s Columbian Exposition at Chicago Unknown 1893
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The +Corinthian+ was made into an independent order by the designing of a special base of small _tori_ and _scotiæ_, and by sumptuously carved _modillions_ or brackets enriching the cornice and supporting the corona above a denticulated bed-mould (Fig. 44).
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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This superstructure is built of wood painted blue, though a good deal weather-beaten; and it is illustrated with a large bow-window in the front, surrounded with a heavy white cornice filled with modillions and other old-fashioned ornaments: it strikes the observer as an appendage to the edifice of questionable utility, and as somewhat incongruous with the prevailing simplicity that characterizes the exterior of the mansion.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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The Wikipedia entry on the subject's fascinating in the extreme: * Decorative stone features of Greek temples such as mutules, guttae, and modillions that are derived from true structural/functional features of the early wooden temples
Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2012
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