Triglyph is an architectural term for the vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze, so called because of the angular channels in them, two perfect and one divided, the two chamfered angles or hemiglyphs being reckoned as one. The rectangular recessed spaces between the triglyphs on a Doric frieze are called metopes. The raised spaces betwe...
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architectural ornament of tablet bearing two V-shaped channels
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• (n.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each o...
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(from the article `order`) ...capital, as stated before, consists of a simple necking; a spreading, convex echinus; and a square abacus. The frieze section of the Doric ...
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A rectangular detail, representative of the beams used in post and beam construction. In the Doric order, regularly spaced triglyphs appear on the frieze. The spaces between the triglyphs are called metopes.
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in the Doric frieze, a block with vertical grooves
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the blocks with vertical grooves separating the metopes in a doric frieze. Said to represent beam ends. See Classical Architecture.
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Banded decoration in a frieze
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In architecture, a triglyph is an ornament used in the Doric frieze, consisting of three vertical angular channels, or flutes, separated by narrow flat spaces; they are not worked exactly in the same manner in the Grecian and Roman examples and in the latter, when placed over columns, are invariably over the centre of them, but in the former at the...
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triglyph, triglyphic 1. An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut...
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'three-grooved'; on a Doric panel, what separates two metopes. For more information, see a architectural drawing of a triglyph and an image of the metope of Temple F at Selinus.
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