socle

American  

[sok-uhl, soh-kuhl] / ˈsɒk əl, ˈsoʊ kəl /

noun

Architecture.

1. a low, plain part forming a base for a column, pedestal, or the like; plinth.

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socle British  

/ ˈsəʊkəl /

noun

1. another name for plinth

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Etymology

Origin of socle

1695–1705; < French < Italian zoccolo wooden shoe, base of a pedestal < Latin socculus literally, little soccus; see sock ¹, -ule

Example Sentences

Without Socialist involvement in the next government, Lecornu's best hope is to cobble together a revitalised centrist cabinet with the Republicans - known as the socle commun - or common platform.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2025

Press the paste into a plain buttered mold or pan of the size desired for the socle, and place a weight on it so it will be compact and firm when cold.

From The Century Cook Book by Ronald, Mary

At each extremity of this portal, rise two insulated towers, receding from all the projection of the inferior order, and decorated by Corinthian columns with pilasters, on an attic serving as a socle.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

The curtailment of the plan which compelled the architect to place a compressed west façade on a high socle, eliminated the door.

From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)

Two finely carved pyramids arose gloriously at the two extremes of the socle, which they confronted.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Bourne, Edward Gaylord