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Meaning of colonette | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.

Examples

“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).”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

colongitude Colongra Colonia Colonia del Sacramento Colonia LeBaron colonial

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