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mo⋅dil⋅lion

  [moh-dil-yuhn, muh-]
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–noun Architecture.
an ornamental cantilever beneath the corona or similar member of a cornice, stringcourse, etc.
Origin:
1555–65; < It modiglione < VL *mutiliōnem, var. of *mūtuliōnem, acc. of *mūtuliō. See mutule, -ion
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mo·dil·lion   (mō-dĭl'yən)   
n.  An ornamental bracket used in series under a cornice, especially a cornice of the Corinthian, Composite, or Ionic orders.

[Italian modiglione, from Vulgar Latin *mutiliō, mutiliōn-, from Latin mūtulus, perhaps of Etruscan origin.]
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