colonette

C3O1L1O1N1E1T1T1E1

noun

A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.

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Meanings

nouncolonette (plural colonettes)

plural colonettes

  1. architectureA narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.

    What is now revealed, in a limestone several shades blonder than the rest of the cathedral, are crisp buttresses, gables, colonettes, gargoyles, pinnacles, crockets and ornaments known as trefoils (three cusps), quatrefoils (four cusps) and cinquefoils (five cusps).

    2007 November 6, David W. Dunlap, “A Blossoming Cathedral Tower Sheds Its Scaffolding”, in New York Times

Origin

French

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

cottolene
Cite this entry
APA

colonette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colonette

MLA

“colonette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colonette. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colonette,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colonette.

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