Triglyph
noun, Architecture.
1.
a structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutive metopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with two vertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flat vertical bands on the face of the block.
noun
1.
(architect) a stone block in a Doric frieze, having three vertical channels
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