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• n  an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

• A participant dressed as the Pink Panther stands on a vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square in central London, part of a "living sculpture" that will allow more than 2,000 people to .
• When it was built in 1841 the Fourth Plinth was intended for an equestrian statue, but the money ran out and the plinth remained empty for more than a century.
• An American wins an hour on the 'fourth plinth' in London's Trafalgar Square and presents a real-time poem crafted from tweets.

• pedestal
• footstall

News & Articles

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• Nine Fine Gael frontbenchers have publically declared no confidence in Fine Gael leader
  Following a meeting of the Fine Gael front bench this morning nine members held a press conference on the front plinth of Leinster House (parliament) to announce they have no confidence in the party leader Enda Kenny.
  June 29, 2013 - Irish Central

Quotes

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• Antony Gormley in BBC News
  Turner Prize winner Mr Gormley, who became famous for Gateshead's The Angel of the North, said: "Through elevation onto the plinth and removal from common ground, the body becomes a metaphor, a symbol and allows us to reflect on the diversity,...
• Nicholas Penny in Bloomberg
  The conversion of the fourth plinth into a soap box or theatrical stage may be high-minded in intention but is symptomatic of this pervasive antagonism to architectural order,Penny said.
• Boris Johnson in Independent
  Mr Johnson, who by this time had been told of the plan to honour the Queen, wrote of Mr Park: "The fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square would be a wonderful spot, but it appears complex planning issues would make it difficult to secure this location on...