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Definition of Dentils
1. dentil [n] - See also: dentil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentils
Literary usage of Dentils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ornamental Concrete Without Molds: A Practical Treatise Explanatory of a by Albert Allison Houghton (1910)
"dentils The addition of dentils and triglyphs to the Doric and Ionic orders,
after the cornice has been molded with the template is fully explained in Fig. ..."
2. The Southeast Building, the Twin Basilicas, the Mosaic House by Saul S. Weinberg (1971)
"PROFILES OF Ponos CORNICE BLOCKS WITHOUT dentils (J, H, I AND U) FROM SOUTH
BASILICA to the same reason, or there may have been differences on the various ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Provided or adorned with dentils ; thus the caryatid porch of the Erechtheum has
a denticulated cornice. The term is especially applied to one form of Roman ..."
4. Principles of Architecture: Comprising Fundamental Rules of the Art, with by Peter Nicholson (1848)
"... dentils, §~c. or any other Projecting Ornament» of a similar nature The
reflected light from the ground and object being scattered in all directions, ..."
5. Popular Mechanics Shop Notes (1919)
"The dentils are Made Accurately and Quickly by Cutting Properly Spaced Grooves
across a Board, ... In fitting the saw for cutting dentils, as shown in Fig. ..."
6. Practical Sheet Metal Work and Demonstrated Patterns: A Comprehensive Treatise by John Henry Teschmacher (1911)
"... the cone are to being parallel the less will be the distance EG and the less
will be the difference between EX and X G. PATTERNS FOR SQUARE dentils IN ..."
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