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A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns.
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The interval or space between two pilasters.
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a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
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Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
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The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
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A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
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The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.
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A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.
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Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.
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A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
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An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.
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Furnished with pilasters.
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A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.
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The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
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See Pillau.
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That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
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See Pelage.
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A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
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Without columns or pilasters.
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