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colonette

colonette noun: a narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.

Noun

colonette (plural colonettes)

  1. A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
    • What is now revealed, in a limestone several shades blonder than the rest of the cathedral, are crisp buttresses, gables, colonettes, gargoyles, pinnacles, crockets and ornaments known as trefoils (three cusps), quatrefoils (four cusps) and cinquefoils (five cusps).2007 November 6, David W. Dunlap, “A Blossoming Cathedral Tower Sheds Its Scaffolding”, in New York Times

Forms of colonette

pluralcolonettes

Origin of colonette

French

Questions about colonette

What does colonette mean?
Colonette means a narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
What part of speech is colonette?
Colonette is a noun.
What is the plural of colonette?
The plural of colonette is colonettes.

Words near colonette in the dictionary

  1. colonelship
  2. colonelships
  3. coloner
  4. coloners
  5. colones
  6. colonette
  7. colonettes
  8. Colonești
  9. colongitude
  10. colongitudes
  11. Colongra

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