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A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column 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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The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
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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 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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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 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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The interval or space between two pilasters.
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Without columns or pilasters.
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Furnished with pilasters.
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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 fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
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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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That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
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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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