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n. - (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice.

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  • Over the arched window behind the ten Melchisedec pulpits, and just beneath the vertical modillion which forms the keystone of the ornamental wooden arch, is the text,...
  • Albert Sherwood built this house with its distinctive modillion cornice on land he bought in 1913.
  • Though the first designers of the modillion were probably Greeks, it must, nevertheless, be taken as really a Roman device, worthily completing the essentially Roman...
  • Her raven-black hair, copious both in length and volume and figured like a deep river, rippled by the wind, was parted in the centre and combed smoothly down, ornamenting her...
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