Pilaster

Word PILASTER
Character 8
Hyphenation pi las ter
Pronunciations /pɪˈlastə/

Definitions and meanings of "Pilaster"

What do we mean by pilaster?

A rectangular column with a capital and base, projecting only slightly from a wall as an ornamental motif. noun

A square pillar, with its capital and base, projecting from a pier, or from a wall, to the extent of from one quarter to one third of its breadth; an engaged pillar. noun

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 its width, or less. noun

A rectangular column that projects partially from the wall to which it attached; it gives the appearance of a support, but is only for decoration. noun

A rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached noun

A rectangular column that projects partially from the wall to which it attached; it gives the appearance of a support, but is only for decoration.

A column or short wing wall attached to the foundation wall which provides lateral support, or to support a vertical load that does not fall on the foundation wall.

A Very tall individual.....very tall individual. Urban Dictionary

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The word "pilaster" in example sentences

An anta may be described as a pilaster forming the termination of a wall. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

Her husband had died when a pilaster of brick and smokey plaster came down on him like a wave. ❋ Meg Pokrass (2010)

An architect's flawless ink-wash rendering of a fluted pilaster surmounted by a capital of the Composite order is, necessarily, an abstraction. ❋ Robert Hughes (2011)

Two of these emblems, the scopetta and the exploding grenade,15 also adorn pilaster capitals in the north wall while a third, a horse's bridle, does not appear elsewhere in the Urbino studiolo. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This theme encircles the chamber in an ornamental interplay of olive branches (on the bench legs) and pomegranates (on the corresponding pilaster bases behind). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Column and pilaster shafts are beige botticino marble while capitals and entablatures are, like the pseudomarble pilasters in the shrine, painted plaster. ❋ Catesby Leigh (2010)

Note 41: The emblems in the pilaster capitals, for example, do not appear elsewhere in other capitals. back ❋ Unknown (2008)

Column and pilaster shafts are beige botticino marble while capitals and entablatures are painted plaster.schafphoto. com Like the shrine, the focus is again on a baldachin - here, with swirling bronze Solomonic columns and an exuberant superstructure inspired by Bernini's baldachin at St. Peter's. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Decorative painter John Canning worked out an extraordinarily subtle color scheme in which chromatic background wall and ceiling tints "bleed" into one another — from pale yellow into a soft gold in the finely articulated plasterwork of the sanctuary ceiling, and from the greenish hue on the walls and arcade piers flanking the nave into the dark-veined, deep-ochre imitation marble of the pilaster shafts on the piers. ❋ Catesby Leigh (2010)

Found in an intarsiated pilaster-capital at Urbino and depicted as an object and emblem in both studioli, the scopetta had been absorbed into the emblems of the Montefeltro through Federico's marriage to Battista Sforza in 1460. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And, in a tour-de-force of subtle craftsmanship, a rectangular glass mirror dangles by a rope from a pilaster capital near the visitor's entrance, "blocking" the "swing" of an adjacent cabinet door. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The light "refracted" by the "material" of the mirror distorts the fluting of the pilaster seen behind. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“[That nigga] a whole [pilaster]. He wild [tall] yo!” ❋ D-Maul (2018)

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