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Architectural drop
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gutta
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A gutta ( Latin pl. guttae , "drops") is a small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture . At the top of the architrave blocks, a row of six guttae below the narrow projection of the taenia ...
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n. (context architecture English) A small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.
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Gutta \Gut"ta\, n.; pl. Gutt[AE] . [L.] A drop. (Arch.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana ...
Usage examples of gutta.
They are chiefly sugar, pepper, tin, nutmegs, mace, sago, tapioca, rice, buffalo hides and horns, rattans, gutta, india rubber, gambier, gums, coffee, dye-stuffs, and tobacco, but the island itself, though its soil looks rich from its redness, only produces pepper and gambier.
But because each gutta tree yields only two or three pounds of gutta-percha, and long submarine cables could require hundreds, even thousands, of tons, the next fifty years would see the gutta trees extirpated from much of their native range.