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Synonyms for pilaster

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pi-las-ter
Phonetic Transcription : pɪˈlæs tər

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Définition of pilaster

Origin :
  • a square column, 1570s, from Middle French pilastre (1540s), from Italian pilastro, from Medieval Latin pilastrum (mid-14c.), from pila, "buttress, pile" (from Latin pila, see pillar) + Latin -aster, suffix "expressing incomplete resemblance" [Barnhart].
  • As in pier : noun support; place for boats
  • As in pillar : noun column of building, or freestanding column
  • As in column : noun pillar
Example sentences :
  • A small head or top of a column; the head or uppermost member of a pilaster.
  • Extract from : « Carpentry for Boys » by J. S. Zerbe
  • Further, there was a pilaster in the middle, below the central bracket.
  • Extract from : « The Care of Books » by John Willis Clark
  • If not, come with me behind the pilaster, for I have something to say before we separate.'
  • Extract from : « Stradella » by F(rancis) Marion Crawford
  • In this loggia the name of Giovan Maria is carved on a pilaster.
  • Extract from : « Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects » by Giorgio Vasari
  • It'll cost me three and six to get that there pilaster mended.'
  • Extract from : « The Light That Failed » by Rudyard Kipling
  • The spiral staircase leading to this is cut in the thickness of a pilaster.
  • Extract from : « The Cathedral Builders » by Leader Scott
  • There is a central shaft, a pilaster on each side, and then the wall.
  • Extract from : « The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), » by John Ruskin
  • The compartments are divided by a shallow Buttress or Pilaster Strip.
  • Extract from : « The Seven Periods of English Architecture » by Edmund Sharpe
  • I clung for support to the pilaster that finished the balustrade of the stairway.
  • Extract from : « The High Heart » by Basil King
  • It is fastened to the pilaster which supports the arch above.
  • Extract from : « The Old Franciscan Missions Of California » by George Wharton James
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