pillar
/ˈpɪlɚ/ nom C1En français : pilier, pile
- A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
- Something resembling such a structure. · a pillar of smoke
- An essential part of something that provides support. · He's a pillar of the community.
- A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.
- The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
- The body from the hips over the core to the shoulders.
- A vertical, often spire-shaped, natural rock formation.
Pluriel pillars
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Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-blotched, bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.
Great is the palace with pillar and wall,
By a sort of instinctive impulse, Franz withdrew as much as possible behind his pillar.
A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars’ heads of the Baskervilles.
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