Colonette
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Colonette is a noun meaning (architecture) A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
Meaning
(architecture) A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
Example Sentences
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).
Word Forms
- colonettes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include column, colonnade, lintel, cantilever, ancon, ledge.
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