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orlo

[ awr-loh ]

noun

, Architecture.
, plural or·los.
  1. a plinth supporting the base of a column.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of orlo1

1605–15; < Italian: border, derivative of orlare to hem < Vulgar Latin; orle
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Example Sentences

De acido e cibis orlo, et de magnesia, reprinted at Edinburgh, 1854.

Then, Orlo, would you not wish to please so merciful and kind a Master, who has done so much for you?

Orlo, from his quickness of vision, was now constantly employed as one of the look-outs.

Bitter, too, was the anguish which poor Orlo suffered when he felt that he should for ever be separated from his beloved Era.

Orlo begged that he and Era and their child might also be there set on shore.

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