triglyph Arch.
(ˈtraɪglɪf)
Also erron. 7–9 tryglyph, 7 triglife, -iphe, 8–9 trigliph. Formerly in L. form triglyphus, pl. -i.
[ad. L. triglyphus (Vitr.), a. Gr. τρίγλυϕ-ος thrice-grooved, f. τρι- tri- + γλυϕή carving. So F. triglyphe (1545 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A member or ornament in the Doric order, consisting of a block or tablet with three vertical grooves or glyphs (strictly, two whole grooves, and a half-groove on each side), repeated at regular intervals along the frieze, usually one over each column, and one or two (see ditriglyph 2) between every two columns.
| 1563 Shute Archit. C iij b, The Canalicoli, standing vpright within the Triglyphi... Bitwixte the .2. Triglyphos, you shall set Methopa. 1624 Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 230 A sober garnishment..of Triglyphs and Metopes alwayes in the Frize. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Triglyph..is a Member of the Frize of the Dorick Order. 1797 Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. xc. 528 A triglyph..was nine feet and a half high. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 467 The architrave and trigliph, representing the beams and joists [of a primitive building]. 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. i. vii. 76 The pillared shaft, the triglyph even rings, I think, indeed, the whole bright temple sings. |
Hence
ˈtriglyphal a. = triglyphic (
a);
triglyphed (
-glɪft)
a., furnished or adorned with triglyphs; in
quot. 1880 as
pa. pple., ? carved in the manner of a triglyph;
triˈglyphic,
triˈglyphical (
rare—0)
adjs., (
a) pertaining to or of the nature of a triglyph; (
b) ‘containing three sets of characters or sculptures’ (Webster, citing Gliddon).
| 1890 Marquand in Amer. Jrnl. Archæol. VI. 54 The Egyptian scotia..is replaced in the Greek entablature by the *triglyphal frieze. |
| 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 217/2 The plain capital composed of merely an echinus and abacus, and a *triglyphed frieze, enable us to pronounce at once that the order is the Doric. 1849 Freeman Archit. ii. ii. 110 Some Sicilian examples exhibit the triglyphed frieze. 1880 F. W. Percival in Academy 4 Sept. 173 The hair..represented in long parallel tresses distinctly triglyphed in the rock. |
| 1847 Webster, *Triglyphic, *Triglyphical. 1866 Ruskin Crown Wild Olive App. (1898) 219 They attack Brandenburg, under its Triglyphic protector. |