MODILLION
Scrabble letter values: M3O1D2I1L1L1I1O1N1 = 12
Definition
- noun (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice.
Examples
- “1922: The familiar classic console or modillion is an example: although in general contour it is well adapted to its function as a supporting bracket, embedded in, and projecting from a wall, yet the scroll-like ornament with which its sides are embellished gives it the appearance of not entering the wall at all, but of being stuck against it in some miraculous manner. — Claude Fayette Bragdon in The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture, Essay II, Unity and Polarity”