Buttresses
[bʌtrəsɪz]
Examples
- On the highest point stood the church--an ancient, weather-beaten building, with heavy buttresses at its sides, and a clumsy square tower in front. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow of one of the stone buttresses ahead of us and we passed them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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