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/mədˈæljən/ Listen

noun

Medallion n.

A large medal or memorial coin.

A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.

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Etymology of 'Medallion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... walls of the clouds, And snorted each coal black stallion Nursed by the Spirit, whose hair Streamed out like a banner, and bare In the night was the moon—a medallion ...

— A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems • A. B. S. Tennyson

... came to see me in my sculptor's studio. He began to talk at first about my busts; he told me that I ought to do his medallion, and asked me incidentally if I knew the role of Phedre. Up to that time I had only played Aricie, and the part of Phedre seemed formidable to me. I had, however, studied it ...

— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt

... great, appear not only ornamental, but positively necessary. In one corner a quaint old jar overflowed with the brightness of fresh yellow daffodils; in another a long, tapering Venetian vase held feathery clusters of African grass and fern, . . here the medallion of a Greek philosopher or Roman Emperor gleamed whitely against the sombrely painted wall; there a Rembrandt portrait flashed out from the semi-obscure background of some rich, carefully disposed fold of drapery,—while a ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

... briery place, thicket. matrimonio matrimony; married couple. matrona matron. maxima maxim. mayo May. mayor greater, larger, older. mayoral head-shepherd. mecer to stir, to agitate. medallon m. medallion. media noche midnight. mediano middling, mediocre. mediante by means of. mediar to be at the middle, to share, to drink to the middle of a glass. medida measure. medio half; m. middle, way, mean. mediodia m. midday, south. medir to measure. meditar ...

— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon

... of which is poised a youthful figure, upheld by two dolphins. The water spills over into a little pool, banked with evergreens. Ivy has been planted in long boxes along the wall, and climbs to the ceiling, where the plaster is left bare, save for the trellised cornice and the central trellis medallion, from which is suspended an enchanting lantern made up of green wires and ivy leaves and little white flames of ...

— The House in Good Taste • Elsie de Wolfe

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