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modenature Arch.
[a. F. modénature, ad. It. modanatura, f. modano moulding.]
The mouldings decorating a cornice.
1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. ii. i. 90 Its proportion..requires an enrichment of handsome Modenatures. 1953Archit. Rev. CXIV. 91 The two outstanding features of the doctrine of Auguste Perret are the insistence on modenature—the profiling and management of projecting features—and the philosophy of the concrete frame. 1959P. Collins Concrete ix. 197 The only modifications to this structural composition [in Greek architecture] consisted of surface modulations intended to make the forms more pleasing to the eye (namely modé⁓nature or profiling), and optical corrections. |