designslinger - Word of the Week: glyph
[glyph (1914) Fort Dearborn Hotel, Holabird & Roche, architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger]
glyph [glif] n. literally, a cutting of any sort;
[glyph (1924) Continental Illinois Bank Building, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, architects /Edison Building (1907) D.H. Burnham & Co., architects /Images & Artwork: designslinger]
in its more usual sense as an architectural term, any one of many grooves, channels, flutes or the like, usually vertical or nearly vertical.
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