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A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.
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The bottom course of stones or bricks supporting a wall.
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A base or pedestal beneath a cabinet.
Examples of plinth in a Sentence
The plinth is a polygon of twenty sides.
The empty plinth was then adjudged a work of art worthy of exhibition, while the head was rejected.
At base is a big square plinth with stopped chamfers at the angles.
In this case the statue is on top of a tall carved plinth set on a two step base of roughly dressed granite.
Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth, brick band and molded eaves and Swithland slate roof with brick end stacks.
Red brick with granite rubble stone plinth and brick eaves and corrugated tile roof with brick crow stepped coped gables.
This year, Banner mounted two major solo exhibitions under the collective title 'Your Plinth is My Lap ' .
Stage 7 Cross Yorkshire Street to the Royal Bank of Scotland which has a plinth of polished black gabbro called Bon Accord.
On the pseudo- plinth is a simple, two-stranded guilloche.
I sat down on a red plinth and was served by an old lady in traditional kimono.
Timber framing with whitewashed brick nogging, granite rubble stone plinth and Welsh slate roof with brick central ridge stack.
Timber framing with granite rubble stone and red brick plinth and red brick nogging, in small part herringbone pattern.
Square paneled timber framing with painted brick nogging and part stone plinth.
On stepped square plinth a pedestal in form of Roman funerary monument, surmounted by tapering obelisk, pointed at summit.
There is a double basal, molded plinth with slightly hollowed coping stones, to a height of about 1m above ground level.
The concrete plinth awaits the railroad to correct its size.
Above a rectangular plinth is a face showing what appears to be a long beard.
Also a small single cylinder Hot Air Machine, home made on wooden plinth, Good Plus.
There's space on the empty plinth for a start.
Brick on rubble plinth, substantial remains of an earlier timber framed building.
Wing behind left hand bay is built on a granite plinth on which a molded brick band rises over a blocked cellar opening.
Brick with Welsh slate roof to forge, Swithland slate to the rest of the range, which also has a cobble plinth.
The frame is of elm, sitting on a brick plinth wall.
The whole is set in a worn sandstone plinth.
A glass top on a stone plinth hides the head of a 49 feet deep well over a bubbling spring.
Upon a plinth of Torridonian sandstones lies the continuous cliff-line of bright white Cambrian quartzites.
Rough cast render presumably over brick with plinth and angle quoins.
Hence, perhaps, her pose leaning against a plinth bearing a statuette of a dancing satyr.
Directly beneath the Moon, on a three tiered plinth, stood a life-sized statue in pink marble of Queen Serenity.
The front elevation has a high rubble plinth with square paneled timber framing in the 2 left hand bays, closer studding to right.
Evidence for south aisle provided by abrupt termination of chamfered plinth on west side of south nave, suggesting a pre-existing wall.
At the east end are further, modern benches set at right-angles to the altar and raised on a wooden plinth.
A rusticated ground floor on a molded plinth supports an upper floor articulated by pilasters.
By the end of August 1885, when a political crisis had supervened between Great Britain and Russia, under the orders of the Amir the Mosalla was destroyed; but four minars standing at the corners of the wide plinth still remain to attest to the glorious proportions of the ancient structure, and to exhibit samples of that decorative tilework, which for intricate beauty of design and exquisite taste in the blending of colour still appeals to the memory as unique.
Stone from a derelict barn was salvaged to create the plinth courses within its footprint of the new extension.
A hazard warning reflective beacon will be placed off the west pier to warn sailors of a concrete plinth covered at high tide.
Plinth scribes are made of multi-layered chipboards and match the carcase color.
Stone square pedestal with inscription, on plinth forming 2 steps all round.
The "Regency portable fountain," patented in 1825 by Charles Plinth, was the prototype of the modern siphon, from which it differed in having a stopcock in place of a spring valve.