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pillared

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pil·lar  (plr)
n.
1.
a. A slender, freestanding, vertical support; a column.
b. Such a structure or one similar to it used for decoration.
2. One who occupies a central or responsible position: a pillar of the state.
tr.v. pil·lared, pil·lar·ing, pil·lars
To support or decorate with pillars or a pillar.
Idiom:
from pillar to post
From one place to another; hither and thither.

[Middle English, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin plre, from Latin pla.]
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Adj.1.pillared - having pillars; "the pillared portico"
columned - having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form); "a columned portico"; "trees with columned trunks"; "white-columned houses"
Translations
pillared [ˈpɪlərd] adj [building] → soutenu(e) par des piliers
pill bottle nflacon m de pilules


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Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
And Philip wondered whether the boat went on for ever through one pillared alley after another or came at last to some strange mansion.
She was almost frightened now at the massiveness of the great pile of gray stone with its pillared verandas and its imposing entrance.
 
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