Fillet

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Fillet - a thin, flat band, running between mouldings, the purpose of which is to both separate and define them.

Fillet : Delicate adornment strips applied to shafts and archways along the moldings. Finial : An ornamental capping piece placed atop spires. Fluting : Carved vertical groove work found on Piers, Columns and Pillars.

Fillet - a thin, horizontal band in a straight profile, usually found on a cornice, architrave, or entablature, for decoration. Foliate Capital - a capital decorated with foliage elements. Frieze - an elongated carved architectural decoration.

Fillet A narrow band with a vertical face. Fillets are often interposed between curved mouldings. Fillet, Sunk ...

Fillet - A fillet is a narrow flat member; the term is especially applied to a flat moulding separating other mouldings and also the space between two flutings in a shaft. ©2007 The Probert Encyclopaedia. Data used under license.

Fillet - Narrow flat band. Finial - A slender piece of stone used to decorate the tops of the merlons, spire, tower, balustrade, etc. Fluting - Concave mouldings in parallel.

An astragal is molding profile composed of a half round surface surrounded by two flat plains (fillets). An astragal is sometimes referred to as a miniature torus.

Fretwork: Ornamental woodwork cut to represent small interlacing fillets or trellis work. It is usually made in a complicated, repeating, geometric pattern. A favored technique of Chippendale in his Chinese period (mid-18th century) ...

KEEL-MOULDING, in architecture, a round on which there is a small fillet, somewhat like the keel of a ship. It is common in the Early English and Decorated styles. << Keeling Islands Charles Samuel Keene >> ...

Glass bedded in simulated washleather instead of Putty, e.g. on swing doors. The fixing is by glazing fillet Waste ...

See also: Architecture, Ornament, Moulding, Roman, Ground