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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MULLION (corrupted from " munnion "; this is derived from Fr. moignon, stump)  , in See also:architecture, the See also:English See also:term for the perpendicular pieces of See also:stone, sometimes like columns, some-times like slender piers, which See also:divide the bays or See also:lights of windows or See also:screen See also:work from each other; equivalents are Fr. meneau, Ital. regolo, • Ger . Fensterpfoste . H . See also:Wedgwood (Dict. of Eng . Etym.) points out that the See also:mullion is " the stump of the See also:division before it breaks out into the See also:tracery of the window." In all styles, in less important work, the mullions are often simply See also:plain chamfered, and more commonly have a See also:flat hollow an each See also:side . In larger buildings there is often a See also:bead or bowtel on the edge, and often a single small See also:column with a See also:capital; these are more frequent in See also:foreign work than in English . Instead of the bowtel they often finish with a sort of See also:double See also:ogee . As tracery See also:grew richer, the windows were divided by a larger See also:order of mullion, between which came a lesser or subordinate set of mullions, which ran into each other .

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