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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A book of rules or orders governing a religious house; the rule.
  • noun In architecture, a short band or fillet, bearing guttæ or drops on the lower side, corresponding, below the crowning tænia of the Doric architrave, to the triglyphs of the frieze. See cut under ditrigiyph.

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