pilaster
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It wasn’t until the 1970s that Italian art historian Rodolfo Signorini discovered that Mantegna had included his own watchful face, lurking inside trompe l’oeil foliage on a west-wall pilaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Close by, below the southern corner of the portico at Zadok's tomb, and underneath the pilaster in the exedras, a vessel of incense in pine wood and a vessel of incense in cassia wood ...
From Time Magazine Archive
In Germany, the Bauhaus scrapped pilaster, pediment and ornaments and created buildings with flat roofs and walls of glass.
From Time Magazine Archive
What he thought was an antenna is nothing more than a painted rod run up the side of a pilaster, probably meant to anchor a clothesline.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
It was built by Samuel McIntyre, and is decorated with the pilaster and festoons that are characteristic of his workmanship.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
Vocabulary lists containing pilaster
The Namesake
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Novel Study: The Namesake, Chapters 5–7
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