单词 | buttress-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈbuttress-like ˈbuttress-like adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [adjective] > buttressed > buttress like buttress-like1821 1821 Lit. Chron. & Weekly Rev. 19 May 306/3 Some islands, to which the name of Prince Leopold was given, were also stratified horizontally, but without the buttress-like projections. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 270 These escarped masses became more buttress-like and monumental. 1921 Times 15 Sept. 7/4 The summit of the north-eastern curtain of this massif is easily accessible by a number of buttress-like ridges which run down to the foreshore of the Mediterranean. 2008 M. Osbaldeston Unbuilding Toronto 158 Buttress-like piers extending from the base up the tower. < as lemmas |
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