dentil
/ˈdɛntɪl
/noun [often as modifier]
(In classical architecture) one of a number of small rectangular blocks resembling teeth, used as a decoration under the moulding of a cornice: a dentil frieze...
- Highlighted items are the paintwork gilding to the capitals in the entrance hall and dentil frieze details in the dining room.
- Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
- The marble was part of the dentil moulding that serves as a frame for the frieze of statues atop the court's main entrance.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Italian dentello or obsolete French dentille, diminutive of dent 'tooth', from Latin dens, dent-.
Rhymes
- symplesiomorphy
- sympodial
- sympodium
- symposiast
- symposium
- symptom
- symptomatic
- symptomatically
- symptomatology
- symptomise
- symptomize
- symptomless
- symptomology
- symptothermal
- sympto-thermal method
- syn-
- synaesthesia
- synaesthete
- synaesthetic
- synagogal
- synagogical
- synagogue
- synapomorphic
- synapomorphous
- synapomorphy