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What is a triglyph?

What is a triglyph? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) A vertically channeled tablet of the Doric frieze.
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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.
The capitals of each triglyph are to measure one sixth of a module.
Andrews, Biographer Triglyph and even Carewe, Elizabeth preferred him as Andrews only, and encouraged him to distance himself from the more frivolous part of his character.
One stand has a torus molding with red-painted triglyph and metopal sections, while a lower register has alternating black and white sections.
The line of support which runs up through the pillar is continued in the triglyph, which also shows perpendicular grooves.
The exterior is quite untouched, triglyph cornice, Doric columns, all well past the century mark.

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