acroter
English edit
Etymology edit
From French acrotère. Doublet of acroterium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acroter (plural acroters)
- (architecture) An acroterium.
- 2007, Galila El Kadi, Alain Bonnamy, Architecture for the Dead : Cairo's Medieval Necropolis, page 191:
- It is a very elegant building, with four supporting Tuscan columns on pedestals, a cornice with a carved wooden valance, and an acroter with square pear-shaped balusters continuing round to the outer wall
References edit
- “acroter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.