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

They are four in number, with a pilaster at each end, and they divide the nave from the aisles. 

From Addresses & Papers / Collectanea by Eade, Peter

The pilaster with Madonna's picture had survived the fire, and the Laudesi still met round it to sing her praises.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.