| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| modillion |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mo·dil·lion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m -d l y n |
| NOUN: | An ornamental bracket used in series under a cornice, especially a cornice of the Corinthian, Composite, or Ionic orders. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian modiglione, from Vulgar Latin *mutili, mutilin-, from Latin m tulus, perhaps of Etruscan origin.
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