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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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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

The reporter probably found an extreme example, but among ordinary slaveholders simple quarters were far more common than pillared mansions.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Eventually, the half-prairie, half-desert landscape turned into hills and, beyond them, the pillared Chisos Mountains.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2015

Lower down there were great pillared arches, yawning blackly like the mouths of railway tunnels.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

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