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Guilloche — an ornament used in Classical architecture, formed by two or more intertwining bands, The term is adopted from the French.

Guttae — small ornaments resembling drops, used in the Doric entablature on the under side of the mutules of the cornice, and beneath the taenia of the architrave, under the triglyphs.
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