pilaster

• In each of the said six tabernacles will be placed two figures about one palm taller than life ( i.e. , 6-3/4 feet), twelve in all; and in front of each pilaster which flanks a tabernacle shall stand a figure of similar size, twelve in all. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti
• All the principal and main posts of the said frame and stage forward shall be square, and wrought pilaster-wise, with carved proportions called satyrs to be placed and set on the top of every of the said posts Roof. —  Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
• The purple and fine-grained white marbles of the pilaster are entirely uninjured in surface by three hundred years' exposure. —  On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
• The hours are marked in these clocks on a column or a pilaster, and a figure emerging from the bottom points to them with a rod throughout the whole day. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
• The northern face of this runs up as a pilaster buttress to the roof; the string round it in continuation of that below the triforium is carved with tooth ornament. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric ; a Short History of the Abbey

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