dentil 的定义
Architecture.
- any of a series of closely spaced, small, rectangular blocks, used especially in classical architecture beneath the coronas of Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite cornices.
更多dentil例句
- Dentil band, in Classic architecture, a series of small blocks resembling square-shaped teeth.
- The only carved molding is the Grecian fret of the dentil course in the pedimental cornice.
- Fragments of the lintel over the outer door, with its projecting dentil cornice, are preserved in one of the shops (Fig. 138).
- In the Diaconissa the notched dentil form is used for the beads; in the Chora, a 'bead and reel.'
- External cornices are in coursed brick, the alternate courses being laid diagonally so as to form the characteristic dentil.