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Examples of plinth
plinth
The bride and groom, tightly primped, are enthroned upon a flower-decked plinth.
From the guardian.co.uk
The steps leading to the prayer chamber and its plinth are in variegated marble.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This has a cruciform plan and is a half-timbered building on a sandstone plinth.
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Sky TV is even providing a live feed to the plinth so we can watch people online.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Denton has an ideal plinth from which to proclaim his strident anti-Soviet views.
From the time.com
The statue toppled off its plinth in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Atop the huge plinth, designed for larger-than-life statuary, it looked minuscule.
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A plinth was unveiled on June 24 that covers the burial site of the container.
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The Memorial plinth was restored for the three hundredth anniversary of the siege.
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- Pedestal: an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
- In architecture, a plinth is the base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument or structure rests. Gottfried Semper's The Four Elements of Architecture (1851) posited that the plinth, the hearth, the roof, and the wall make up all of architectural theory. ...
- The Ancient Egyptian Plinth-(shaped) hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. Aa15 for the shape of a plinth, side view.
- A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, or statue is based; The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall; A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet
- (plinths) the lower square part of the base of a column. A square base or a lower block, as of a pedestal. The base block at the juncture of baseboard and trim around an opening.
- Subframe of a wardrobe or wall combination.
- Square or rectangular section forming part of the base of a pillar, column, or statue.
- Square base of a column or of a building.
- A platform base supporting a column or pilaster.
