scamillus

[ skuh-mil-uhs ]

nounArchitecture.
  1. a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.

  2. a plain stone beneath the plinth of a column.

Origin of scamillus

1
<Latin, diminutive of scamnum stool, bench

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