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pylon
noun as in column
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The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.
The largest still existing is the outer pylon of the great temple of Karnak.
This moulding bounds all the flat surfaces of the pylon, which are, moreover, covered with bas-reliefs and paintings.
From the base of the pylon spring those vertical masts from whose summits many coloured streamers flutter in the sun.
Obelisks and colossal statues seem to have been peculiarly necessary outside the first, or outer, pylon of a temple.
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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pylon, such as: monument, brace, buttress, caryatid, colonnade, and cylinder.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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