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Definition of Dentels
1. dentel [n] - See also: dentel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentels
Literary usage of Dentels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Builders' Architectural Drawing Self-taught: Containing Descriptions of by Frederick Thomas Hodgson (1903)
"In the illustration square blocks or dentels are introduced, but often to the
dentels is added a row of modillions immediately beneath and supporting the ..."
2. Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners and Students: The Orders by William Henry Leeds (1852)
"To the dentels of the Ionic cornice is added a row of modillions, immediately
beneath and supporting the corona. These modillions are ornamental blocks, ..."
3. A Handbook of Architectural Styles by Albert Rosengarten (1898)
"When these dentels meet at the corners (Fij. 133), a plain square space is ...
These dentels do not occur in the Ionic structures in Attica during Fig. 134. ..."
4. History of Art in Persia by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1892)
"But is it not a universally acknowledged fact that dentels in a stone architecture
are reminders of the ends of the joists of the primitive timber loft, ..."
5. The Rudiments of Architecture and Building for the Use of Architects by John Bullock (1865)
"... after the manner of the letter S turned thus, cc; and between them and the
dentels, and also below the latter, are other mouldings sometimes cut, ..."
6. The Lives of Celebrated Architects, Ancient Amd Modern: With Historical and by Francesco Milizia, Eliza Taylor tr Cresy (1826)
"The worked dentels, of which the antiquities of Rome furnish a number of examples,
cease to be dentels, and are converted into a sort of fret ornament: they ..."
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