mullion
See also: Mullion
English edit
Etymology edit
Alteration of monial (“mullion”),[1] or metathesis of Middle English moyniel, both ultimately from[2] Old French moinel.
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Noun edit
mullion (plural mullions)
- (architecture) A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen.
- Hypernyms: glazing bar, muntin
- Coordinate term: transom
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vertical bar between the casements of a window
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Verb edit
mullion (third-person singular simple present mullions, present participle mullioning, simple past and past participle mullioned)
- (transitive) To shape into divisions by means of mullions.
References edit
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- ^ “mullion”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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