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
I clung for support to the pilaster that finished the balustrade of the stairway.
From The High Heart by King, Basil
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
Vocabulary lists containing pilaster
The Namesake
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Art History
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Novel Study: The Namesake, Chapters 5–7
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