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A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

A pilaster, or square projection of the side wall of a temple.

[L.] The end of a wall terminating in a pillar ; the terminations of the pteromata, or side walls, of a temple, when prolonged beyond the face of the end walls.