monotriglyphic love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Said of the Doric order when there is but one triglyph over the intercolumniation.

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  • But if the building is to be systyle and monotriglyphic, let the front of the temple, if tetrastyle, be divided into nineteen and a half parts; if hexastyle, into twenty-nine and a half parts.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

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