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pillared

American  
[pil-erd] / ˈpɪl ərd /

adjective

  1. furnished with pillars serving as an architectural ornament, border, or support.


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“Petra” depicts the elegant, salmon-colored pillared temple dramatically seen, like a sudden revelation, through a crack in a dark stone barrier.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Separately, Trump said he was replacing the decades-old sandstone paving stones in the colonnade, the pillared walkway that leads from the main White House mansion to the Oval Office.

From Barron's Mar. 24, 2026

Armed with a cut of the film, pillared by the songs he wrote and arranged, Blumberg crafted a score that subtly teed up song melodies and established a sense of spiritual trance.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2025

Wedding planner Natalia wouldn't go into specifics about Yakubets' big day but showed us around some of the key locations, including a pillared building carved out of the hills near a lake.

From BBC Nov. 16, 2021

Once, waking as the train pulled through a city at dawn, Lefty had mistaken a pillared bank for the Parthenon, and thought he was in Athens again.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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