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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture: A small wing of a building.
  • noun A pilaster or buttress.
  • noun The lateral face of the pier of an arch, extending from the edge of the opening; especially, that portion of the lateral face between the edge of the opening and a semi-column, pilaster, or the like, serving to decorate the pier. Also spelled allette.

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  • The foregoing is the draft of alette* which I propofed to be writ ten to your Honours from your adminiftration here, but the majority of the Council not confenting thereto, I think it incumbent on me to tranfmicic to you, and (hall add, that was I fenfible any part of my conduit fines my arrival here had been improper, I would acknowledge, and endea - vour to re&ify it.

    Copies of Papers Relative to the Restoration of the King of Tanjore, the ... 1777

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