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PILLARED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pillared mean? 

PILLARED (adjective)
  The adjective PILLARED has 1 sense:

1. having pillarsplay

  Familiarity information: PILLARED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PILLARED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having pillars

Context example:

the pillared portico

Similar:

columned (having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form))


 Context examples 


Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The avenue ran through a noble park, between lines of ancient elms, and ended in a low, widespread house, pillared in front after the fashion of Palladio.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The long, many-pillared room, with its mirrors and chandeliers, was crowded with full-blooded, loud-voiced men-about-town, all in the same dark evening dress with white silk stockings, cambric shirt-fronts, and little, flat chapeau-bras under their arms.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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