Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A projecting rectangular block or bracket situated above the triglyph and beneath the corona of a Doric cornice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a projecting piece in the form of a flat block under the corona of the Doric cornice, corresponding to the modillion of other orders.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See
Illust. ofgutta .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture The rectangular blocks under the
soffit of thecornice of the Greek Doric temple, which is studded withguttae .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin mutulus.]
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Examples
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Yeah Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a mutant, a mutineer and a mutule.
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Three rows of six guttae each are attached to the under surface of a mutule.
A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886
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(n): (architecture) a flat, rectangular block on the underside of the corona, or projecting part, of a Doric cornice.
January 11, 2009