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See also:TRIGLYPH (Gr. rpelis, three, and yXv4 , an incision or See also:carving) , an architectural See also:term for the vertically channelled tablets of the Doric See also: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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