Usage examples (34)

• "metope" is used of the intervals between dentils as well as of those between triglyphs.
• The new museum, in fact, tried to recreate the exact same vantage points from ground to frieze, metope and panel.
• In the same way the somewhat rigid laws of composition of pediment metope and frieze compelled the Greek artist to think out schemes suitable to those forms.
• In case of the metope, the square field is filled with two or three figures balanced about a central line, a scheme self-contained and harmonious, which may be compared...