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Alternative form of acroterium [(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.]
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One of the pedestals, for vases or statues, forming a part roof balustrade.
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(architecture) An obelisk or spire.
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Alternative form of acroterium [(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.]
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(architecture) A ring-shaped molding at the top of a column.
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(architecture) Furnished with an architrave.
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(architecture) An ornamental molding or band following the curve on the underside of an arch.
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(architecture) An Ionic ornamental band encircling the pulvinus, or bolster of the capital.
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(architecture) One of the shafts of a clustered column.
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(architecture) Bearing a capital.
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(architecture) Each of the main stalks which support the volutes and helices of a Corinthian capital.
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(architecture) The capital or uppermost part of a column, upon which the roof and its decorations are supported.
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(architecture) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
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Alternative spelling of colonnade [A series of columns at regular intervals.]
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(architecture) A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
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(architecture) a small, thin column, especially one used to support an arcade
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(architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
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(architecture) One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.
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(architecture) Of a style of ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; ancient and roughly composed.
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Alternative form of sile [(now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.]
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(architecture) A molding on the cornice.
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(architecture) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
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Alternative form of entablature [(architecture) All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.]
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(architecture) A slight convex curvature introduced into the shaft of a column for aesthetic reasons, or to compensate for the illusion of concavity.
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(architecture) A pediment or gable end.
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(architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.
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Having a gallery structure, particularly in the form of a covered passage supported by columns, or arches.
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(architecture) A small opening in an interior wall of a church, enabling those in the transept to view the high altar.
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Alternative form of caryatid [A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.]
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(architecture) A low side window in a church.
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A cylindrical outdoor sidewalk structure (like a column) used for advertising; an advertising column
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(architecture) Any of the rectangular blocks under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which are studded with guttae.
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(architecture) A building or an architectural element (for example, a window) designed in the Palladian style.
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(architecture) Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.
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(decorative architecture) A rectangular column that projects partially from the wall to which it attached; it gives the appearance of a support, but is only for decoration.
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(architecture) One of the columns, pillars, or stilts that lift a building above ground or water.
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(of a building) That includes a portico; furnished with a portico or porticoes.
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(architecture) decorated with quatrefoils
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(architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.
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(archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
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(architecture, Christianity) A carved screen that separated the chancel and nave in a medieval church; it originally carried a large crucifix; an altar screen.
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Alternative form of rood screen. [(architecture, Christianity) A carved screen that separated the chancel and nave in a medieval church; it originally carried a large crucifix; an altar screen.]
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A spire built over the entrance to the chancel.
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A representation of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
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(architecture) The shaft of a column.
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(architecture) One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc..
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A fillet above and below the scotia of an Attic base.
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(architecture) Of an arch or dome: rising higher than a semicircle.
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(architecture, Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order.
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(architecture) A large convex molding, typically semicircular in cross section, which commonly projects at the base of a column and above the plinth.
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(architecture) Alternative form of trachelium [(architecture) The neck of a column.]
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(architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
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(architecture) Synonym of socle
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