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1556–7 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1905) III. 87 Reparacions..14 mollyons of irene wayng 45 pounde..for whyttyng the studdy 1s.

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Cii The windowes be thicke of mullions that there is no krepinge in betwene.

1590 in Compt Bk. D. Wedderburne (1898) 64 Item for mending the Mullenis in the sylling xvj^d.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) Introd. 4 The lantern..was..domed over; the doming being supported upon eight stone pillars or mullions, with openings between them for the passage of the light.

1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iii. 300/1 The styles or upright divisions in wainscoting are..sometimes called mullions.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 163 This is, in fact, the great use of the mullion, to enable you to use wider windows.

1938 Amer. Home Oct. 41/3 The wide windows with their narrow casement sash divided by mullions, admit sunlight and ventilation.

1989 National Trust Mag. Summer 8/1 The repairs to the oak-framed walls, windows and gables..started this spring. The oak mullions and transoms are beautifully moulded but in some cases..had been eroded by insect attack, wet rot and weathering.

2000 Sci. Amer. 77/1 On the second floor, we plan to reinforce the overstressed concrete joist just above the steel window mullions.

1891 E. Hull et al. Explanatory Mem. Sheets 3–5, 9–11, 15 & 16 Maps Geol. Surv. Irel. iv. 53 To the north of Carnteena, quartzite of the yellowish-white compact variety, forms the bare rocky hills of Crocknaglogh and Croaghnacreggy and in some parts ‘mullion structure’ was observed—a peculiar fluting due to the shearing of the rocks.

1937 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 93 597 The individual mullions are not always due to the presence of small folds, as is apparently true of the quartz rods of Beinn Thutaig.

1966 E. H. T. Whitten Struct. Geol. Folded Rocks ix. 313 Excellent mullions developed in these quartzites, and in the granite close to the northwestern contact zone.

1999 Jrnl. Struct. Geol. 21 949 The possibility arose that simple field measurements of boudins and mullions might also constrain rock viscosity ratios.

1888 C. C. Hodges Abbey of St. Andrew, Hexham 30 (note) A reprise or reprisal is the foot of a window mullion or jamb... Mullionseat is the term used in some localities.

1963 E. S. Hills Elem. Struct. Geol. x. 310 The subdivision of a bed, more particularly a sandstone interbedded with slate, into long parallel slabs with smooth rounded surfaces is known as mullion-structure.

1999 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 111 1350/1 Individual faults within the detachment-fault system are corrugated parallel to the east-northeast transport direction, resulting in broad mullion structures.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. ii. iii. 193 A large mullion window.

a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. i. 3 He lay in a room with mullion windows.

2001 Birmingham Post (Electronic ed.) 9 Mar. 8 Local stone was then used to encase the inner structure, there are lovely mullion windows and diagonally-set chimney stacks.