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colonnette

n. (context architecture English) a small, thin column, especially one used to support an arcade

Usage examples of "colonnette".

Slender colonnettes and tall furniture occupied these chambers, and sometimes, there were forms moving between.

Along the inner walls of the stairwell, the stems of slender colonnettes rose up, curving gracefully, like lilies, into complex vaults supporting the stairways.

Pressing themselves inadequately into the angles of a cluster of colonnettes, they ceased, momentarily, to breathe.

A lump rose in his throat suddenly as he saw the big proud houses of the avenue gliding past, with their deep porches and colonnettes and gaily painted shutters, and the pastel sky enmeshed in a tangle of groping branches and softly fluttering leaves.