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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 271 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRIGLYPH (Gr. rpelis, three, and yXv4 , an incision or
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carving)  , an architectural
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term for the vertically channelled tablets of the Doric
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frieze, so called because of the angular channels in them, two perfect and one divided—the two chamfered angles or hemiglyphs being reckoned as one . The square sunk spaces between the triglyphs on a frieze are called metopes .

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