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MONOTRIGLYPH

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONOTRIGLYPH , in See also:

architecture, the See also:interval of the inter-columniation of the Doric See also:column, which is observed by the intervention of one See also:triglyph only between the triglyphs which come over the axes of the columns. This is the usual arrangement, but in the See also:Propylaea at See also:Athens there are two triglyphs over the central See also:intercolumniation, in See also:order to give increased width to the roadway, up which chariots and beasts of See also:sacrifice ascended.

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