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Definition of "metope" []

  • Architecture Any of the spaces between two triglyphs on a Doric frieze. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "metope" in a sentence
  • ""metope" is used of the intervals between dentils as well as of those between triglyphs."
  • "The new museum, in fact, tried to recreate the exact same vantage points from ground to frieze, metope and panel."
  • "Then, in the evening's coup de théâtre, the minister put on a pair of white conservator's gloves, lifted a fragmentary marble relief of a boy's head toward the massed photographers, inserted the shard into a shattered metope, and beamed like a child who had completed his first jigsaw puzzle."
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