Architectural features illustrated

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Mansard roof - a curb hip roof in which each face has two slopes, the lower one steeper than the upper; from the French mansarde after the accomplished 17th-century French architect noted for using (not inventing) this style, François Mansart.


Marriage stone - a stone lintel, usually carved, with a marriage date.


Mascaron - A mascaron ornament is a face, usually human, sometimes frightening or chimeric, used as a decorative element.


Meander - Decorative border made by a repeated linear motif.


Minaret - In Islamic architecture, a tall spire with a conical or onion-shaped crown, on or near a mosque, that is used by the imam to give the prayer call.


Modillion - Enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice and above the bedmold of the Corinthian entablature. It is probably so called because of its arrangement in regulated distances.


Moulding - Decorative finishing strip.


Mullion - a vertical bar of wood, metal or stone which separates two or more windows in a series.


Muntin - a vertical or horizontal piece that divides a pane of glass into two or more panes or lights in a window.


Mutule - Rectangular block under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which is studded with guttae. Not to be confused with Dentile decoration
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