Usually means: Decorative feature on building's apex.
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  8. Acroterium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. acroterium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Acroterium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  1. acroterium: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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Definitions from Wiktionary (acroterium)

noun:  (architecture) One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment, or upon the gables in Gothic architecture.
noun:  One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.

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