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Architectural ornament
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dogtooth
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogtooth \Dog"tooth`\, n.; pl. Dogteeth . See Canine tooth , under Canine . (Arch.) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament . Dogtooth spar (Min.), a variety of calcite, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A canine tooth 2 (context architecture English) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dogtooth (, translit. Kynodontas ) is a 2009 Greek film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos about a husband and wife who keep their children ignorant of the world outside their property well into adulthood. The film stars Christos Stergioglou , Michelle Valley, ...
Usage examples of dogtooth.
I dug up all the dogtooth violet bulbs I could find and stuffed them into my pockets.
He had shaved, gargled with a sharp mouth-wash, and now, in a battered black and white dogtooth suit, dark blue Sea Island cotton shirt and black silk knitted tie, he was walking softly, but not surreptitiously, along the corridor to the head of the stairs, the, square leather case in his left hand.
Elsewhere he saw dogtooth spar, crystallized calcite in the shape of small pyramids.
I leapt up the bank, slipped, and my face went down in a patch of dogtooth violets.
A mound of sort of fluffy mashed cattail tubers, mushrooms, and dogtooth violet bulbs, smothered in gravy thickened with acorn powder.
I had no idea that one could now eat Dogtooth Rock or Ganister or Mealing Stone.
Each driver's mouth, Answering her silly jokes, he gasped at after The cabin-door slammed shut: the dogteeth showed.
She could even feel the eye-teeth - her dogteeth - curving up through pink-sheathing gums, cutting the flesh!