anta
anta is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
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- 1.A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base. Note: Porches, when columns stand between two antæ, are called in Latin in antis.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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