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colonettes

colonettes is the plural of colonette.

Meaning of colonette

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

Questions about colonettes

What is colonettes the plural of?
Colonettes is the plural of colonette.

Words near colonettes in the dictionary

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

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