| 释义 |
‖ piedroit Arch.|pjedrwa|
[F. pied droit, lit. ‘straight foot’, the vertical wall supporting an arch, also as below.]
A square pier or pillar attached to a wall, which differs from a pilaster in having neither base nor capital.
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Piedroit [ed. 1706 Pied-droit], a square Pillar, that is partly within the Wall. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Pied-droit, in Architecture, is a Square Pillar, differing from a Pillaster in this respect, that it hath no Base nor Capital: It is taken also for part of the Jaumbs of a Door or Window. 1723Chambers tr. Le Clerc's Treat. Archit. I. 38 Cornices which terminate the Piedroits of Portico's. |