ANNULET, in architecture, a small square member in the Doric capital, under the quarter-round.
Annulet is also a narrow flat moulding, which is common to divers places of the columns, as in the bases, capitals, &c. It is the same member which Vitruvius calls a fillet; Palladio, a listil or cincture; Scamozzi, and Mr Brown, a supercilium, list, linea, eyebrow, square, rabbit. See ARCHITECTURE.
Annulet, a little circle, borne as a charge in coats-of-arms, as also added to them as a difference. Among the Romans it represented liberty and nobility. It also denotes strength and eternity, by reason of its circular form.
When this figure is added as a difference, some authors assert, that it serves to remind the bearer to achieve great actions.