Look up: pilaster

1. Pilaster
   In architecture a pilaster is a square column or pillar, used In classical architecture, sometimes disengaged, but generally attached to a wall, from which it projects a third, fourth, fifth, or sixth of its breadth. The Greeks formed their pilasters of the same breadth at the top and bottom, and ga...
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2. Pilaster
   Shallow pier used to buttress a wall.
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3. pilaster
   A true pilaster is a rectangular element of vertical masonry which projects only slightly from the wall and has both a capital and a base
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4. pilaster
   [n] - a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached
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5. Pilaster
   shallow pier used to buttress wall
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6. Pilaster
   A shallow pier attached to a wall.
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7. pilaster
   column or pillar incorporated in, but projecting from, a wall
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8. pilaster
   a rectangular column or pillar strip projecting in relief from a wall
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9. Pilaster
   Projecting part of a square column which is attached to wall
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10. Pilaster
    Projecting part of a square column that is attached to wall.
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11. Pilaster
    Vertical strip slightly projecting from the wall face.
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12. Pilaster
    the flat version of a column, consisting of a slim rectangle projecting from a wall; used also of plain piers or pilasters without classical orders which are more correctly termed pilaster strips.
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13. Pilaster
    The flat version of a column against a wall. A pilaster strip is similar but without a base or capital.
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14. Pilaster
    A low-relief pillar applied as a decoration to the face of a building. Related Words: Classical; Column; Low relief
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15. Pilaster
    A rectangular column that projects only slightly from a wall.
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16. Pilaster
    In architecture, a flat, rectangular column (sometimes fluted) with a capital and base, that is attached to or set into a wall and which projects only slightly from that wall. It may be used decoratively as an ornamental motif, or used to buttress the wall. Contrast it with: column, pier.
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17. Pilaster
    Very shallow buttress, which has no structural use; it articulates the building on the outside.
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18. pilaster
    A flattened - rectangular in section - Classical column topped by a moulded or sculptured capital. Pilasters appear on chests, cupboards and chimneypieces of the 16th and 17th centuries, on cabinet-work throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, and in the form of the tapering pilaster leg in furniture.
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19. Pilaster
    Pi·las'ter noun [ French pilastre , Italian pilastro , Late Latin pilastrum , from Latin pila a pillar. See Pillar .] (Architecture) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pie...
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20. pilaster
    noun a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached
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21. Pilaster
    • (n.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of...
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22. pilaster
    in Greco-Roman Classical architecture, shallow rectangular column that projects slightly beyond the wall into which it is built and conforms ... [1 related articles]
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23. pilaster
    pilaster 1. A rectangular column with a capital and base, projecting only slightly from a wall as an ornamental motif. 2. A shallow rectangular feature projecting from a wall, having a capital and base and usually imitating the form of a column.
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24. Pilaster
    A half-round or thin rectangular column superimposed over a vertical surface.
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25. pilaster
    shallow buttress strengthening a wall
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