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pilaster Arch.|pɪˈlæstə(r)|
Also 6–7 pillastre, -ter, 7 pyl(l-, (pilley-stair).
[a. F. pilastre (1545 in Hatz.-Darm.), a. It. pilastro, in med.L. pīlastrum (1341), f. pīla a pillar: see -aster.]
1. A square or rectangular column or pillar; spec. such a pillar engaged in a wall, from which it projects with its capital and base a third, fourth, or other portion of its breadth; an engaged pillar; an anta; formerly applied also to the square pier of an arch, abutment of a bridge, or similar structure.
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 50 Vpon a base a too foot square,..a square pilaster rizing pyramidally, of a fyfteen foote hy. 1598Florio, Pilastro, any kinde of piller or pilaster. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars vi. xxxi, A Roome prepar'd with Pilasters,.. That to the Roofe their slender Poynts did reare. 16..Lindesay's Chron. Scot., Contin. (1728) 233 A square low Gallery, some four Foot from the Ground, set round about with Pilley-stairs. 1613–39I. Jones in Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 103 The Pilaster is the Basement against the Bank of the River. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 238 Pylasters must not be too tall and slender, lest they resemble Pillars, nor too Dwarfish and grosse, lest they imitate the Piles or Peeres of Bridges. 1670Moral State Eng. 87 An house adorned without with various Pillars, and Pillasters of several Orders. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 36 The Jambs or Pilasters of the Doors. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 11 The Piles or Pilasters, which are fixed in the River; the Arches which these Pilasters support. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Beauty Wks. (Bohn) II. 433 Our taste in building..refuses pilasters and columns that support nothing.
transf.1875Wonders Phys. World i. i. 39 Piles or pilasters of ground ice which supported the superficial crust.
†2. A pillar-like or cylindrical shape or figure.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xi. (Arb.) 110 The Piller, Pillaster or Cillinder. 1601Holland Pliny II. 613 They delight to cut their Berils into long rolls or pillastres in manner of cylindres [L. cylindros ex eis malunt facere].
3. attrib. and Comb., as pilaster block, pilaster buttress, pilaster capital, pilaster pier, pilaster pinnacle; pilaster-like adj.; pilaster-fashion, pilaster-wise adv.; pilaster-strip: see quot. 1874.
1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 277 Fashion your battlements of what shape soeuer you please to haue them; whether made plaine, or pyllaster-wise [etc.]. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 224 Revailed or Pilaster-peers, from 10 to 14 Pounds a pair. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Brick, Pilaster, or buttress bricks,..are of the same dimensions with the great bricks, only they have a notch at one end, half the breadth of the brick; their use is to bind the work at the pilasters of fence-walls, which are built of great bricks. 1773Noorthouck Hist. Lond. 599 These buttresses run up pilaster fashion. 1874Parker Goth. Archit. Gloss. 326 Pilaster Strips, a term used to describe the vertical projecting parts of the towers supposed to be Saxon. 1879Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 49 Flat, pilaster-like buttresses. |