What is "plinth"

Usage examples of "plinth".

She was busy laying out her equipment on the stone plinth under the carving of Roh Betina, with her assistant, a young Samsui called Cycler Jhonni.

In the ghostly lambency of the streetlights the statue stood on his plinth, gazing down at her.

Nith Immmon for ten minutes along stone-clad corridors, through waiting areas flagged with agate tiles, down green-onyx and cor-blood-red-porphyry staircases, across abandoned skylit plazas, studded with obsidian plinths that had once held the trembling bodies of animals sacrificed to the Kun-dalan goddess Miina.

Much to his embarrassment, he discovered that statues of himself and Cassius were already under construction, and would go up on imposing plinths in the agora right next to the statues of the great Greek tyrannicides, Aristogeiton and Harmodius.

Venerable Bede was new-old: reinforced concrete buildings with precast columns, architraves, plinths, caryatids, and whatnot glued on the outside to simulate age.

They proved to be parts of the frieze on the plinth of the orthostat, the decorative inside sheathing of palace walls.

Then upon the dais he constructed another dais just large enough to hold a curule chair, a good foot taller than the rest of the platform, and faced with a plummy purple marble which had formed the plinth of the statue of Zeus.

While he watched, a hulking rock plinth heaved itself up out of the quaggy ground a few feet away, towered upward unbl its top vanished, stories above him, in the gray haze, then sank into the ground again.

The large glass doors opened on to a gloomy, marble- floored hall upon whose fairly lofty ceiling were depicted various scenes of a surgical or medical aspect, while round its dark oak-panelled walls stood an orderly row of dead and gone consultants, each on his plinth.

The vast square was surrounded at midlevel by arcaded corridors, their arched openings separated by polished columns of wildly variegated gold and green marble standing on square plinth blocks, each decorated with a medallion of a past ruler of one of the lands of the Midlands.

Forum statues from their plinths and pedestals and sent them to the Velabrum to be broken up.

The Pool of Curtius, the sacred trees, Scipio Africanus atop his tall column, the beaks of captured ships mounted on more columns, statues galore on imposing plinths glaring furiously like old Appius Claudius the Blind or looking smugly serene like wily and brilliant old Scaurus Princeps Senatus.

All any man has to do is look at the walls, the floors, the empty plinths and the absence of gifts to see what humiliation you have inflicted on Jupiter Optimus Maximus!

At irregular intervals there were sculpted heads on tall plinths of brown flecked marble.

In the centre was a low plinth, padded, with restraints set in each corner.