What's the difference between cullion and mullion?

Cullion


Definition:

  • (n.) A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.

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Mullion


Definition:

  • (n.) A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.
  • (n.) An upright member of a framing. See Stile.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with mullions; to divide by mullions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Annabel Mullion was painted with her shaggy-haired dog Rattler and reappears seven years later with a pregnant belly in Expecting the Fourth 2005 (only 10x15cm), and in a larger etching, limbs still like a thoroughbred, as described by one of Freud's favourite authors, Baudelaire: "vainly have time and love sunk their teeth into her".
  • (2) It's a vastly different experience, still offering terrific shopping and most of the city's excessive architecture; the mad mock-chteaux, mullioned 1920s Tudor mansions, 50s-o-rama "dingbat" stucco apartment blocks: a fantastical, variegated stew characterised by architectural critic Charles Jencks as Heteropolis.
  • (3) The original gave Annabel Mullion's surname as Mullen.
  • (4) • East Row ( 01947 893916, sandsidecafe.co.uk ) Poldhu Beach Cafe, Mullion, Cornwall Poldhu Beach Cafe, Mullion, Cornwall.
  • (5) BSkyB did not unduly discriminate against BT by blocking its multi-mullion pound TV advertising campaign to promote rival Premier League coverage, Ofcom has ruled.

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