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

On the third pilaster, to the left of the nave, is a fresco of Isaiah by Raphael, painted in 1512, but retouched by Daniele de Volterra in the reign of Paul IV.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

On the east side of the pilaster one of the beads of the lower bead and reel moulding was attached by a plug, of which the hole remains.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.