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Interpilaster
Interpilaster In`ter*pi*las"ter, n. (Arch.) The interval or space between two pilasters. --Elmes.

Meaning of Pilaster from wikipedia

- In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical...
- lesene, also called a pilaster strip, is an architectural term for a narrow, low-relief vertical pillar on a wall. It resembles a pilaster, but does not have...
- He was bred and raced by Henry L. Straus and trained by Frank Bonsal. Pilaster was sired by Pilate, a son of the 1916 American Horse of the Year and Belmont...
- Dún Briste (English: Dun Briste Sea Stack) is a natural sea stack or pilaster - in geomorphology called stack - that was formed in Ireland during the Carboniferous...
- deaths, that of Peter Middleton and Tobias Pilaster, Hugh's father. Edward Pilaster: Son of Joseph Pilaster, head of a wealthy banker family, at high level...
- early 14th-century Italy, it took on an architectural form with column and pilaster decorations. In modern times, a credenza is more often a type of sideboard...
- Latin caput 'head') or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster). It mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it, broadening...
- walls, as in the Heraeum of Olympia (c. 600 BCE). Antae differ from the pilaster, which is purely decorative, and does not have the structural support function...
- supports, called an "anta capital" when it is structural, or sometimes "pilaster capital" if it is only decorative as often during the Roman period. In...
- 45°33′0.87″N 9°17′0.02″E / 45.5502417°N 9.2833389°E / 45.5502417; 9.2833389 There are three plague crosses in Brugherio, in the province of Monza and...