pilaster
puh la ster
- n a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached
- In Germany, the Bauhaus scrapped pilaster, pediment and ornaments and created buildings with flat roofs and walls of glass.
- Close by, below the southern corner of the portico at Zadok's tomb, and underneath the pilaster in the exedras, a vessel of incense in pine wood and a vessel of incense in cassia .
- Goethe's stern commandment"the pilaster is a lie"was no longer a sufficient rallying cry as it had been for Mies's generation, and the man who had done so much in the cause .