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Definition of Diglyphs
1. diglyph [n] - See also: diglyph
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diglyphs
Literary usage of Diglyphs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Art in Sardinia, Judæa, Syria, and Asia Minor by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1890)
"... it is not so easy to determine the age of those distinguished about their
facade by guttae, diglyphs, vegetable forms, ..."
2. History of Ancient Pottery: Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman by Samuel Birch (1873)
"... like metopes, but separated by diglyphs instead of triglyphs, or else in
continuous bands or friezes, each being several times repeated. ..."
3. Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible Lands, in 1850 by Edouard de Warren (1854)
"... and these metopes are divided from each other by triglyphs, which may be
called, more correctly, diglyphs, as they only bear two flutes and two drops. ..."
4. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"They are either disposed in compartments, like metopes, but separated by diglyphs,
or else in continuous bands or friezes, ..."
5. History of Ancient Pottery by Samuel Birch (1858)
"... like metopes, but separated by diglyphs instead of triglyphs, or else in
continuous bands or friezes, each being several times repeated. ..."
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