Fig. 1. Fig. 2. There is also a bearing of a bend called doubledancette (fig. 2). Thus, he beareth azure, abend double dancette argent. Dentel (in architecture), an ornament in No. 4<.—Vol. II. cornices bearing some resemblance to teeth;particularly in the Ionic and Corinthianorders. Vitruvius… … each dentel, or tooth, to be half its height,and the metopa, or interval between each two,to be two-thirds of the breadth. [We shallshortly give the rule for drawing the dentel.] Doorway (in architecture), the entrance toa house, distinguished from a gateway by beingsmaller in dimensions.…
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