bolection

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English

Alternative forms

bilection (archaic)

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

Noun

bolection (plural bolections)

  1. (architecture) A moulding that covers a joint, especially between joints between surfaces on different levels.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 62:
      [] your disk of white light trembling like the moon on water as it plays over the identical bureaus, the recessions of closet and room's front door, door's frame's bolections []