colonnette
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French colonnette.
Noun
colonnette (plural colonnettes)
- (architecture) a small, thin column, especially one used to support an arcade
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
colonnette f (plural colonnettes)
- a small column
- 1896, Pierre Louÿs, Aphrodite:
- Et c'était là, dans une petite maison blanche à terrasse et à colonnettes, qu'ils l'avaient laissée deux mois après, […] .
- And it was there, in a small white house with a terrace and small columns, that they had left her two months later, […]
Further reading
- “colonnette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
colonnette f
- plural of colonnetta