moellon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moellon. Doublet of modillion.

Noun

moellon (countable and uncountable, plural moellons)

1. rubble masonry

Related terms

• modillion
• mutule

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “moellon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• lemonol

French

Etymology

From an alteration of Old French moilon (influenced by moelle), itself probably from a Vulgar Latin *mūtuliōnem, from Latin mūtulus (“stone or wood overhang”). Compare Italian modiglione; cf. also Spanish mojón. Doublet of modillon, taken from Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mwa.lɔ̃/

Noun

moellon m (plural moellons)

1. (architecture) rubblestone

Derived terms

• moellonaille
• moellonier
• moellonage
• moellonneur

Related terms

• mutule

Further reading

• “moellon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.