triglyph [trahy-glif] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun Architecture. 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. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of triglyph 1555–65; Latin triglyphus Greek tríglyphos thrice-grooved, equivalent to tri- tri- + glyph(ḗ) glyph + -os adj. suffixRelated formstri·glyphed, adjectivetri·glyph·ic, tri·glyph·i·cal, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for triglyph Historical Examples of triglyph
Triglyph, the channelled feature in the frieze of the Doric order.
Thomas Roger Smith
The short band, corresponding to the triglyph, beneath the tnia moulding which crowns the epistyle; the listel.
Franz von Reber
Hence the metopes next to the corner columns do not come out perfectly square, but are too broad by half the width of a triglyph.
Vitruvius
Those who would make the metopes all alike, make the outermost intercolumniations narrower by half the width of a triglyph.
Vitruvius
A triglyph is one of those blocks cut with vertical channels, which seem to rest upon the epistyle and to support the cornice.
Russell Sturgis
British Dictionary definitions for triglyph triglyph noun architect a stone block in a Doric frieze, having three vertical channels Derived Formstriglyphic, adjectiveWord Origin for triglyph C16: via Latin from Greek trigluphos three-grooved, from tri- tri- + gluphē carving. See glyph Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012