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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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The capitals of each triglyph are to measure one sixth of a module.
The line of support which runs up through the pillar is continued in the triglyph, which also shows perpendicular grooves.
Triglyph, the channelled feature in the frieze of the Doric order.
One stand has a torus molding with red-painted triglyph and metopal sections, while a lower register has alternating black and white sections.
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.
The frieze lacks the Doric triglyph and metope, and hence this area can hold a continuous band of carved ornament, such as figural groups.

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