pylon

• The tomb chapel consists of a pylon, a colonnaded courtyard, an antechamber with four pilasters terminating in three cult chapels, and the base of a pyramid. —  Al-Ahram Weekly Online
• By placing the digitized puck on the screen's designated pylon, a visitor's saved search becomes a dramatic cartographic display of the city from above travel route mapped out within it. —  Dezeen
• The rotor blades detached from the helicopter and then struck the tail, causing the tail boom and pylon -- which holds the tail rotor -- to become severed from the fuselage, the Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said. —  CNN.com
• As you can well imagine, this sometimes makes watching television problematic, as parts of the pylon are likely to get in the way of the screen. —  an englishman in osaka
• The stars were shining brightly; hence he saw at one end of the court an immense pylon, at the other an open entrance to the temple He went thither. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

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