Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having pillars; supported by pillars.
- Having the form of a pillar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
pillars . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pillar . (verb)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having pillars
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reception was chattering away in the large formal area upstairs known as the pillared crowing-room.
Penalty Francis, Dick 1997
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Out from this court they walked through a kind of pillared cloister, and the façades of the house as they passed on, were beautiful in pure simplicity of line; so white, they seemed to turn the sun on them to moonlight; so jewelled with bands and plaques of lovely tiles, that they were like snowy shoulders of a woman hung with necklaces of precious stones.
The Golden Silence 1901
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They came to see his pillared legs, the jagged silicon penumbra of his collar bone, links of chain that merged with the tendons of his wrists.
Ballardian » Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition winners 2010
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In my palace, I leave Medusa and my mother behind and pass through a pillared hall of shadows.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Passengers off the Cremyll ferry stroll in the park beneath holm oaks and pass a pillared temple.
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Sitka Charley, looking back, saw the pillared smoke of their fire, and guessed.
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And we encountered other men, fiercer, bigger, who faced us on the beaches in open fight, showering us with spears and arrows, while the great tree drums and the little tom-toms rumbled and rattled war across the tree-filled hollows, and all the hills were pillared with signal - smokes.
Chapter 15 2010
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In my palace, I leave Medusa and my mother behind and pass through a pillared hall of shadows.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Hand in hand they ran down the path to the tree-pillared room.
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Sitka Charley, looking back, saw the pillared smoke of their fire, and guessed.
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