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
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
Vocabulary lists containing pilaster
The Namesake
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Novel Study: The Namesake, Chapters 5–7
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