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Dogtooth

noun
(pl. dogteeth)
1.
Perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated.  Synonyms: dog's-tooth violet, dogtooth violet.
2.
One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars.  Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, cuspid, eye tooth, eyetooth.
3.
A carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England.



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"Dogtooth" Quotes from Famous Books



... extremely simple, and were decorated with a "peculiar and shallow class of notched ornament", of which many examples exist in other buildings of the period; while the mouldings of William of Sens "exhibit much variety, but are most remarkable for the profusion of billet-work, zigzag and dogtooth, that are lavished upon them." The first two methods of ornamentation are Norman, the last an Early English characteristic. This mixture is not confined to the details of decoration but may be observed also in the indiscriminate employment of round and pointed arches. This feature, ...
— The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. • Hartley Withers


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