Metope

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Architecture Any of the spaces between two triglyphs on a Doric frieze.
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  • n. The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of entablature.
  • n. The face of a crab.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In architecture, a slab inserted between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, sometimes, especially in late work, cut in the same block with one triglyph or more.
  • n. In zoology, same as facies. Huxley.
    • Word Usage
    ""metope" is used of the intervals between dentils as well as of those between triglyphs."
    Variant
    entablature   
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