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

An exclamation of surprise and dismay escaped her, on beholding the private room open, and anxiously advancing, she discovered me, my head resting against a pilaster, and my hand pressed to my beating temples.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia

Archie had been sitting in his favourite attitude, with his stockinged feet against the pilaster of the fireplace.

From In Accordance with the Evidence by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]