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Meaning of orthostate | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Plaque de pierre posée au pied d’un mur, parfois sculptée de reliefs.

Equivalents

Français orthostate

Examples

“... the sill course. In the orthostate course of each is a single vertical Greek dowel cutting, the top edges measuring 0.489-0.52 m above the sill […]”
“[…] the anta block but begins with the first full orthostate (Fig. 18:a). […] The same sort of truncating of a full orthostate occurs at the reveals of the east entranceway. […] A smashed east-jamb orthostate puts this detail beyond recognition, but the west-jamb orthostate retains the whole surface with the cyma reversa intact at either end.”

CEFR level

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

orthostates orthostatic hypotension orthostatism orthostereoscopy orthosterism orthostichy

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