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pillar


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verb

Definition of PILLAR

transitive verb
: to provide or strengthen with or as if with pillars

First Known Use of PILLAR

1607

Other Architecture Terms

buttress, casita, cornice, fanlight, garret, lintel, parapet, pilaster, plinth

Rhymes with PILLAR

giller, griller, hiller, killer, spiller, swiller, tiller, triller

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