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ANNULET

Volume 2 · 121 words · 1797 Edition

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 listel or cinque; Scamozzi, and Mr Brown, a supercilium, list, tima, eyebrow, square, rabbit. See Architecture.

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.