Lintel vs Colonette - What's the difference?
lintel | colonette |
(architecture) A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
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(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
, 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 a proper noun lintel
is (computing) the computing environment of the (linux) operating system running on an intel cpu; mostly in a server.As a noun colonette is
(architecture) a narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.lintel
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(en noun)- Athelny had told him that he lived in a house built by Inigo Jones; he had raved, as he raved over everything, over the balustrade of old oak; and when he came down to open the door for Philip he made him at once admire the elegant carving of the lintel .
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