terminal figure

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terminal figure - (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rometerminus, termstatue - a sculpture representing a human or animalarchitecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"

Terminal figure

A carving in the form of a pedestal that tapers outward at the top and merges into an animal, human, or mythological figure; used for columns, statues, and consoles. See also Gaine.

terminal figure, terminal statue

A decorative figure in which a head, or a head and bust, or the human figure to the waist and including the arms, is incorporated with (as if it were springing out of) a pillar which serves as its pedestal.

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terminal figure

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noun (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar

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terminus
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statue
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