contraforte
Portuguese
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- Hyphenation: con‧tra‧for‧te
Noun
editcontraforte m (plural contrafortes)
- (architecture) buttress (brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it)
- Synonym: botaréu
- buttress (feature jutting out from mountain)
- buttress (anything that serves to support something else)