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dentil Arch.|ˈdɛntɪl|
Also 7 dentile.
[a. obs. F. dentille (16th c. in Littré); a fem. deriv. of dent; cf. Pr. dentilh masc.:—L. denticulus, dim. of dens, dent-em tooth. See also denticule, dentel.]
Each of the small rectangular blocks, resembling a row of teeth, under the bed-moulding of the cornice in the Ionic, Corinthian, Composite, and sometimes Doric, orders.
1663Gerbier Counsel 71 The Dentiles at three pence per foot. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, Dentles [in architecture], dentuli. 1849Freeman Archit. 113 The dentils introduced just under the cornice..are a great source of richness. 1865C. T. Newton Trav. Levant xxviii. 307 A stone forming the angle of a small pediment, with dentils coarsely executed.
†b. transf. That member of the entablature in which the dentils (when present) are cut. Obs.
1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. II. 40 b, An upright cymatium; and over that a plain dentil. 1789P. Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 89 A reglet divided, its parts alternately omitted, is called a dentil.
c. attrib.
1754in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 38 That..a Parapet Wall be erected, adorned with a Dentil Cornice. 1812–6J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 180 Under the modillions is placed an ovolo, and then a fillet and the dentil face, which is often left uncut in exterior work. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 474 The dentil-bands should remain uncut. 1865J. G. Nichols in Herald & Geneal. July 254 The classical dentil moulding. |