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HYPOTRACHELION

Volume 501 · 53 words · 1797 Edition

in Architecture, is used for a little frize in the Tuscan and Doric capital, between the astragal and annulets; called also the coleria and gorgeria. The word is applied by some authors in a more general sense, to the neck of any column, or that part of its capital below the astragal.

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