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trumeau|trymo|
Pl. trumeaux.
[Fr., lit. ‘calf of the leg’.]
1. Also trumeau mirror. A pier-glass.
1883J. W. Mollett Illustr. Dict. Art & Archæol. 327/1 Trumeau, a pier looking-glass. 1941Amer. Speech XVI. 27 ‘Über dem Kamin..ist ein Trumeau-Speigel.’.. Cf. ‘Trumeau’ in Cent. Dict., also in Webster's; not in NED. Nowhere do I find any reference to ‘Trumeau Mirror’. 1969Canad. Antiques Collector May 11/1 The trumeau at the left is one of a pair flanking the dining room entrance. 1974S. Sheldon Other Side of Midnight xiv. 278 From mantel top to ceiling rose a heavily carved trumeau mirror.
2. Archit. A stone pillar supporting the middle of the tympanum of a doorway, esp. in a church.
1890C. H. Moore Gothic Archit. vii. 262 After the eleventh century the principal portals of great monastic and cathedral churches were commonly divided into two openings by trumeaux, or pillars of stone, affording place for sculpture, which consisted usually of a statue with more or less subordinate carving. 1936A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. iv. 100 The ‘trumeau’ at Moissac, also with its superimposed pairs of lions, stands parent to the extraordinary creation at Souillac. 1968M. Jay tr. Bazin's Hist. World Sculpture (1970) vii. 266 (caption) Trumeau of the old portal, church of Souillac. 1977New York Rev. Bks. 12 May 8/4 The only other Romanesque church with two portals, which originally included trumeaux, is St. Lazare at Autun. |