dentelli

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dentelli, plural of dentello. Compare dentil, borrowed from French.

Noun

dentelli pl (plural only)

  1. modillions
    • 1712 July 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, June 26, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 415; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
      in a cornice, if the gola or cynatium of the corona, the coping, the modillions or dentelli, make a noble show, by their graceful projections
      The spelling has been modernized.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “dentelli”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Italian

Noun

dentelli m

  1. plural of dentello

Verb

dentelli

  1. inflection of dentellare:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. third-person singular imperative
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