Decorative vs Colonette - What's the difference?
decorative | colonette |
That serves to decorate
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A plant, tile, etc. intended for use as decoration.
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(architecture) A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
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, 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). }}
As an adjective decorative
is .As a noun colonette is
(architecture) a narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.decorative
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(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative . In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.}}
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