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pylon Noun 1. chiefly Brit a large vertical steel tower-like structure supporting high-tension electrical cables 2. US and Canadian a plastic cone used to demarcate areas, esp on public roads [Greek pulōn a gateway]
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In Paddington all Cornwall is latent and the remoter west; down the inclines of Liverpool Street lie fenlands and the illimitable Broads; Scotland is through the pylons of Euston; Wessex behind the poised chaos of Waterloo. No doubt, when one contemplates these two Bibles, laid so broadly open in the centuries, it is permissible to regret the visible majesty of the writing of granite, those gigantic alphabets formulated in colonnades, in pylons, in obelisks, those sorts of human mountains which cover the world and the past, from the pyramid to the bell tower, from Cheops to Strasburg. |
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