Crossword-Solution: METOPE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metope | n. | The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature. |
| Metope | n. | The face of a crab. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “METOPE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DORIC frieze slab | 1 answer |
| Part of a Doric frieze. | 1 answer |
| Part of a frieze. | 1 answer |
| Square space in a frieze | 1 answer |
| square space between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze | 1 answer |
| PANEL in frieze | 2 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with METOPE (5)
And cracking frieze and rotten metope Express, as though they were an open tome Top-lined with caustic monitory gnome; “Dunces, Learn here to spell Humanity!” And yet within these ruins’ very shade The singing workmen shape and set and join Their frail new mansion’s stuccoed cove and quoin With no apparent sense that years abrade, Though each rent wall their feeble works invade Once shamed all such in power of pier and groin.
The third group of Parthenon sculptures, the ornaments of the metope, represents the contest between centaurs and the Lapithae with some scenes interspersed of which the subjects cannot now be determined.
The sculptures of the metope, on the contrary, are in high relief, frequently giving the impression of marbles detached from the background altogether.
Your hands would fit much better in a metope of the Elgin Marbles, than in a wash-tub, or a bake-oven." Drawing away quickly, she put them behind her, and felt her palms tingle.
Between every two triglyphs, and standing a little farther back, there is a square or nearly square slab or block called a METOPE.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1950–2000).