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socle

[ UK /sˈɒkə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. a plain plinth that supports a wall

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  • The whole socle (lower wall), to which the famous frieze of the dancing girls belonged, now has been completed up to the level below the platform of the temple-like structure above it. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 4
  • Do you know, however, 'continued he musingly,' that at Sparta (which is now Palaeochori) -- at Sparta, I say, to the west of the citadel, among a chaos of scarcely visible ruins, is a kind of socle, upon which are still legible the letters. The Assignation
  • The exterior elevation consists of three cylindrical shafts of decreasing thickness from bottom to top, set on an octagonal socle and reaching a total height of over 255 feet.
  • A pair of bust-length portraits in silver, mounted on turned wooden socles, represent a well-to-do Dutch couple and seem - on the evidence of the costume - to have been made around 1645.
  • They originally must have occupied a continuous socle elevating them even more than their mere size already did, in the central space of the complex, where we found the six-meter long dedicatory inscription of A.D. The Antonine Dynastic Gallery at Sagalassos
  • The latter area yielded only few sherds, but a number of structures were observed, which are built in the same "primitive" style as those recorded at Düzen (no mortar, rough fieldstone socle, no tiles or brick). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 12
  • Do you know, however, "continued he musingly —" that at Sparta (which is now Palæochori), at Sparta, I say, to the west of the citadel, among a chaos of scarcely visible ruins, is a kind of socle upon which are still legible the letters ΛΑΞΜ. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
  • The statuette represented a woman bound tightly, on whom two Cossacks were inflicting the knout; the socle bore the inscription, "Polonia vincta et flagellata. Samuel Brohl and Company
  • Et puis je dois avouer que le voir tenir debout tout seul sans socle c un bonheur ... et vu la carrure et la posture ya du avoir de la galere pour trouver le point d'equilibre! Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • The east side of the Northwest Heroon after the removal of the temporary scaffolding, the south side up to the level below the stylobate of the upper naiskos, and the west side of the socle up to the stylobate Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 4
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