epistyle
English
Etymology
Latin epistylium, Ancient Greek: compare French épistyle.
Noun
epistyle (plural epistyles)
- (architecture, historical) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; an architrave.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for epistyle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- yelpiest