Noun:

சுவற்றில் இருந்து வெளித் தள்ளி அதற்குப் பாதுகாப்பாக இருக்கும் சதுரத் தூண்,

pilaster's Usage Examples:

In architecture, a "strippilaster" is a narrow pilaster such as is found in Saxon work and in the Italian Romanesque churches.

pilaster columns rising to the ceiling.

Giovanni Evangelista at the Frari, with its fore-court and screen adorned by pilasters delicately decorated with foliage in low relief, and its noble staircase whose double flights unite on a landing under a shallow cupola.

The lowest range of semicircular arches consists of twenty columns and the second of sixty; and above this is a row of eighteen windows in the same style separated by as many pilasters.

Everywhere - on the balustrades closing the chapels, round the base of the pilasters, along the walls, beneath the cornice of both the exterior and the interior of the church - there is one ornament that is perpetually repeated, the interwoven initials of Sigismondo and Isotta.

The main front was a five-bay, two-storey, stuccoed block with Tuscan pilasters and a central, columned porch.

pilaster strips with a vase motif decoration set with diamonds.

Span of 2 shallow arches, with brick cutwater in central pier and brick pilaster above it, on each side.

The use of brick led to the early development of the pilaster and column, as well as of frescoes and enamelled tiles.

of the arches, with the spandrils and the pilasters which support them, are covered with flowers and foliage of delicate design and dainty execution, crusted in green serpentine, blue lapis lazuli and red and purple porphyry.

rusticated ground floor on a molded plinth supports an upper floor articulated by pilasters.

There is a 15th-century Italian example in South Kensington Museum of a pilastered turret containing an oblong crystal case, the whole resting on a stemmed base, and surmounted with a cupola.

In the interior, which is supported by four pilasters and eight columns, the most striking features are the octagonal font and the hexagonal pulpit, erected in 1260 by Niccola Pisano.

Synonyms:

column, pillar,

Antonyms:

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