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A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without mouldings and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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History
From Latin [Term?] (“a little bench”), from scamnum (“bench, stool”).
