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postament Arch. rare.|ˈpəʊstəmənt|
(Also 8 postment.)
[ad. It. postamento, f. postare to post, posta situation, placing, setting; whence also Ger. etc. postament.]
A pedestal, a base; also, a framing, mounting, or moulding around a bas-relief, large cameo, or the like.
1738[G. Smith] Curious Relations II. 392 All these Pyramids were railed in with Bannisters, on the Postments of every other were put Pots with Orange-Trees. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §191 (ed. 2) 174 Insulated pedestals of columns (stylobates) which arose from continuous postaments (stereobates). |