The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acroter
Acroter \Ac"ro*ter\ ([a^]k`r[-o]*t[~e]r or [.a]*kr[=o]*t[~e]r), n. [F. acrot[`e]re. See Acroterium.] (Arch.) Same as Acroterium.
Wiktionary
acroter
n. (context architecture English) An acroterium.
Usage examples of "acroter".
The acroteria, painted in black and red on the natural surface of poros stone, take the shape of palmettes and lotuses.
If then there are reasons for finding the origin of pedimental decoration in a plane or low-relief composition of terracotta, made more effective both by a framing of like material and technic, and by the acroteria at either extremity and above, then the process of development which leads at length to the pediments at Aegina and the Parthenon becomes at once easy and natural.