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- noun Plural form of
colonette .
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Examples
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While the Lucas and Spielberg Buildings 'deep eaves, tile roofs, belvedere and spacious courtyard hearken back to the vernacular manor houses of Tuscany, there's an unwieldy overlay, with classical egg-and-dart moldings mixing it up with pink, spiral-shafted Romanesque colonettes and Prairie Style-like window muntins.
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In addition to its massive Romanesque entrance arches, horseshoe-arched windows, elaborate patterned brickwork, terracotta panels, stained glass windows and marble colonettes, he lavished the Hollywood Parade with three different window styles, a crazy roofline with ornate brackets, Greek-inspired palmettes, and griffins perched along the decorative metal edge.
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The simple roll moldings were all narrow and the colonettes were long and thin.
The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989
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Among ivory carvings in Carlovingian times may be cited a casket with ornamental colonettes sent by Eginhard to his son.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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He excelled also in setting the persons of poem, drama, or romance in ornamented frames like the Gothic shrines with triple colonettes, arches, canopied and bracketed niches, with statuettes, figurines, emblematic animals, male and female saints on a background of gold.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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The whole work may be called his, for he designed the building and the sculptures of the façade, which are in the richest style of the Renaissance; there are statuettes, colonettes, busts, medallions, and bas-reliefs, and wherever a flat surface exists it is divided into diamond-shaped slabs of colored marbles.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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There are bas-reliefs representing children playing upon musical instruments, and the whole front of the chapel, with its numerous pilasters and colonettes, has been compared to a gigantic organ, by Mr. Perkins, in his "Italian Sculptors".
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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