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Colonette vs Colonnette - What's the difference?

colonette | colonnette |

In architecture terms the difference between colonette and colonnette

is that colonette is a narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel while colonnette is a small, thin column, especially one used to support an arcade.

colonette

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 6, author=David W. Dunlap, title=A Blossoming Cathedral Tower Sheds Its Scaffolding, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=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). }}

    colonnette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) a small, thin column, especially one used to support an arcade
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