triglyph 的定义
Architecture.
- a structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutive metopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with two vertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flat vertical bands on the face of the block.
更多triglyph例句
- The capitals of each triglyph are to measure one sixth of a module.
- The short band, corresponding to the triglyph, beneath the tnia moulding which crowns the epistyle; the listel.
- Triglyph, trī′glif, n. a three-grooved tablet at equal distances along the frieze in Doric architecture.
- Thus, in the Doric temple, the triglyph and cornice are unimitative; or imitative only of artificial cuttings of wood.
- Hence the metopes next to the corner columns do not come out perfectly square, but are too broad by half the width of a triglyph.