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Modillion vs Dutchman - What's the difference?

modillion | dutchman |

As nouns the difference between modillion and dutchman

is that modillion is (architecture) a decoratively carved supporting block atop a column while dutchman is (carpentry|masonry) a piece of wood or stone used to repair a larger piece, shaped such that it fills as exactly as possible a void or cavity that is to be repaired.

modillion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) A decoratively carved supporting block atop a column.
  • *1922: The familiar classic console or modillion is an example: although in general contour it is well adapted to its function as a supporting bracket, embedded in, and projecting from a wall, yet the scroll-like ornament with which its sides are embellished gives it the appearance of not entering the wall at all, but of being stuck against it in some miraculous manner. — Claude Fayette Bragdon in The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture'', Essay II, ''Unity and Polarity

    • dutchman

    English

    Noun

    (Dutchmen)
  • A Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.
  • A person of Dutch descent
  • A German
  • (South Africa, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A white Afrikaner.
  • * 1990 , Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams (page 54)
    • the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen . Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.

    See also

    * Dutchwoman

    Derived terms

    * Dutchman's breeches * Dutchman's laudanum * Dutchman's pipe * Flying Dutchman

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (US) A nickname for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    • 2003 Bradley, James Flyboys . New York: Little, Brown and Company. Ch 8:
  • :* President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].
    • English nouns with irregular plurals