coussinet
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French
Noun
coussinet (plural coussinets)
- (architecture) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
- (architecture) Part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “coussinet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
coussinet m (plural coussinets)
See also
Further reading
- “coussinet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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