Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as gradin
  • noun A piece of ornamentation, painting, sculpture, or the like intended for the front of an altarledge or raised superaltar: as, a gradino of mosaic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Arch.) A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar. Cf. superaltar, and gradin.

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  • noun architecture A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar.

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Italian

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