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bilection

bilection is the archaic form of bolection.

Meaning of bolection

Noun

bolection (plural bolections)

  1. A moulding that covers a joint, especially between joints between surfaces on different levels.
    • […] your disk of white light trembling like the moon on water as it plays over the identical bureaus, the recessions of closet and room's front door, door's frame's bolections […]1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 62

Forms of bilection

pluralbilections

Questions about bilection

What is bilection the archaic form of?
Bilection is the archaic form of bolection.

Words near bilection in the dictionary

  1. bileaflet
  2. bileaflets
  3. Bilecik
  4. bilectal
  5. bilectals
  6. bilection
  7. bilections
  8. biled
  9. Bilefsky
  10. bileful
  11. Bilein

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bilection (page history and authors); bolection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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