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Definition of Mutules
1. mutule [n] - See also: mutule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutules
Literary usage of Mutules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"Half-timbers, in ship-building, those timbers in the cant bodies which are
answerable to the lower fut- tocks in the square body face of the mutules in the ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"In this order, when the mutules are introduced in the entablature, ... The projection
of the mutules is equal to their width, being thirty minutes: the ..."
3. The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"Hence generally, in buildings of stone and marble, the mutules are carved with a
... The scheme of triglyphs and mutules in Doric buildings was, therefore, ..."
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