pilaster

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In Germany, the Bauhaus scrapped pilaster, pediment and ornaments and created buildings with flat roofs and walls of glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Bal�uster, a small column or pilaster, of various forms and dimensions, often adorned with mouldings, used for balustrades.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

On the pilaster of the last chapel on the right is a good modern tomb, with delicate detail.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.