pilaster in English

noun
1
a rectangular column, especially one projecting from a wall.
He began by adding a light Baroque facade with pilasters and massive fluted columns at the main, upper tier, topped by a balustrade with vases and statues.

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1. The decorative pilaster is framed inside a torana over two shorter pilaster supports .

2. The recesses between the pilasters contain the usual short and slender pilaster motif surmounted by a shrine superstructure over its abacus .

3. Alette definition, (in classical architecture) a part of a pier, flanking a pilaster or engaged column and supporting either impost of an arch

4. Carrying the Architraval course which continues as a frieze course across the front elevation, turning the corners at each end and terminating as pilaster corners

5. The recesses contain a slender pilaster carrying a shrine top at its apex over its abacus with a superposed creeper or patra - lata torana over it .

6. The abacus of the pillar and pilaster capitals becomes thinner , smaller , and polygonal in contrast with the large , thick and square forms of the Pallava and earlier Chola times .

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