baluster-shaft
baluster-shaft.
1. Short, thick colonnette with pronounced entasis between openings (usually in towers) in Anglo-Saxon architecture.
2. Baluster-column in Italian campanili.
1. Short, thick colonnette with pronounced entasis between openings (usually in towers) in Anglo-Saxon architecture.
2. Baluster-column in Italian campanili.
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