piers

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It consists of a wide exedra—a curved, high-backed bench—flanked by piers and supporting eight columns.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

From piers to palaces, tourist attractions are getting creative to lure in the trippers.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

But in 1982-83, when another super El Niño occurred, storms destroyed multiple piers and ripped away a 400-foot section of the Santa Monica Pier.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Across the narrow strip of water, AFP could see the skyline of the Chinese city of Xiamen, the piers of China's unfinished Xiamen-Kinmen bridge and Xiamen's new international airport, due to open next year.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

In this way the main piers could remain quite thin in proportion to their height, allowing more space for the windows between them.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay