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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mullion
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In section each mullion is an asymmetric oval, tapering at one end.
▪ Plasteel mullions divided the narrow, high lancet windows of stained armour-glass.
▪ She was taken to a comfortable bedroom with stone mullions and changed into clothes appropriate for the occasion.
▪ Store removed material well away from the work area 5 Use a general-purpose saw to cut through mullions and transoms.
▪ Thatched roof, two storeys, the second had more mullion windows hunched inside the thatch.
▪ The gable wall structure consists of a series of fabricated steel mullions at 3.6m centres.
▪ The use of ground anchors in tension and the glazing mullions as compression members resolves the forces from the cable-net.
▪ Then he saw the mullion windows were open.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mullion

Mullion \Mul"lion\, v. t. To furnish with mullions; to divide by mullions.

Mullion

Mullion \Mul"lion\, n. [A corruption of munnion, F. moignon stump of an amputated limb, stump, OF. moing mutilated; cf. Armor. mo[~n], mou[~n], mank, monk, and also L. mancus maimed.] (Arch.)

  1. A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.

  2. An upright member of a framing. See Stile.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mullion

"vertical column between the lights of a window," 1560s, metathesis of Middle English moyniel (early 14c.), from Anglo-French moinel, noun use of moienel (adj.) "middle," from Old French meien "intermediate, mean" (see mean (adj.)). Related: Mullioned.

Wiktionary
mullion

n. A vertical bar between the panes of glass or casements of a window or the panels of a screen.

WordNet
mullion

n. a nonstructural vertical strip between the casements or panes of a window (or the panels of a screen)

Wikipedia
Mullion

A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window, door, or screen, or is used decoratively. When dividing adjacent window units, its primary purpose is to provide structural support to an arch or lintel above the window opening. Its secondary purpose may be as a rigid support to the glazing of the window. When used to support glazing, they are often teamed with horizontal elements called " transoms" which divide an opening's upper part into one or more additional lights.

In the commercial door industry, the term "floating mullion" is also applied to an interlock profile which is fitted in between a pair of double swing doors.

Mullion (disambiguation)

A mullion is a structural element which divides adjacent window units.

Mullion may also refer to:

  • Annabel Mullion (born 1969), English actress
  • Mullion (geology), a reworked boudin, geological term for structures formed by extension
  • Mullion, Cornwall, a village and parish in Cornwall, England
  • Mullion Cove, a harbour and cove in Cornwall
  • Mullion Creek, Australia
  • Mullion Island, a small island in Mount's Bay, Cornwall

Usage examples of "mullion".

The windows which look into the garden, like those that look upon the court-yard, are mullioned in stone with hexagonal leaded panes, and are draped by curtains, with heavy valances and stout cords, of an ancient stuff of crimson silk with gold reflections, called in former days either brocatelle or small brocade.

Balconies, verandas, dripstones, running molds, and mullions carved from mocha-colored limestone.

And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.

The original foliation seems to have been cut away, and the intermediate mullions extended to the points of the two lights.

Low and rambling, with creeper-covered waIls built of mellow stone, it had mullioned windows, twisted barley- sugar chimneys and a hotchpotch of crooked roofs and ga bles.

Low and rambling, with creeper-covered walls built of mellow stone, it had mullioned windows, twisted barley-sugar chimneys and a hotchpotch of crooked roofs and gables.

Diegan reached across, caught the frame of the casement, and pulled closed and latched the mullioned panes.

A mullioned window was pushed open to reveal the autumnal landscape beyond, with the dying sunset beams diffused through it.

I had had my cup of tea, which Parky usually brought to me at about four-thirty, I went back and sat at the refectory table in front of the soaring, mullioned window.

Claws restled on broken glass below windows so mined even the mullions were gone.

She noticed at once that Sir Andrew immediately made for little Suzanne de Tournay, and that the two young people soon managed to isolate themselves in one of the deep embrasures of the mullioned windows, there to carry on a long conversation, which seemed very earnest and very pleasant on both sides.

The tracery is all new, Lord Grimthorpe keeping only the old outlines and leading lines of the mullions.

Wexford said, appreciating the linenfold panelling, the settles and the old mullioned glass in the windows.

When the task was done, over two years after its commencement, I viewed the great rooms, wainscoted walls, vaulted ceilings, mullioned windows, and broad staircases with a pride which fully compensated for the prodigious expense of the restoration.

And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.