pedestal
[ped-uh-stl]
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noun
an architectural support for a column, statue, vase, or the like.
a supporting structure or piece; base.
Furniture.
- a support for a desk, consisting of a boxlike frame containing drawers one above the other.
- a columnar support for a tabletop.
Building Trades. a bulge cast at the bottom of a concrete pile.
verb (used with object), ped·es·taled, ped·es·tal·ing or (especially British) ped·es·talled, ped·es·tal·ling.
to put on or supply with a pedestal.
Origin of pedestal
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Since the day before, Geoffrey had been for her a figure aureoled and pedestalled—strange transfiguration of the statesman statue!
Paths of JudgementAnne Douglas Sedgwick
It was Cromwell's mood, as one who, living under the eye of God, scorned the vapourings of pedestalled mortals.
The Path of the KingJohn Buchan
Especially are they needed by the pedestalled woman in her conflict with the natural.
Diana of the Crossways, CompleteGeorge Meredith
The gleam of the torches flickered up gigantic colonnades, pedestalled on beautiful little groups of caryatids.
The Death of the GodsDmitri Mrejkowski
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Word Origin for pedestal
C16: from French piédestal, from Old Italian piedestallo, from pie foot + di of + stallo a stall
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