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61pediment — triangular part of the facade of a Greek style building, 1660s, alteration of periment, peremint (1590s), apparently a dialectal garbling of PYRAMID (Cf. pyramid), the connection perhaps being the triangular shape. Sometimes associated with ped… …
62da — abab·da; acar·i·da; ac·com·mo·da·ble; ac·com·mo·da·tion; ac·com·mo·da·tion·al; ac·com·mo·da·tive; ac·com·mo·da·tor; ac·cor·da·tu·ra; acel·da·ma; achor·da·ta; ac·ni·da; acras·i·da; acras·pe·da; ac·ti·noi·da; ac·ti·no·myx·i·da;… …
63stick — I [[t]stɪk[/t]] n. 1) bot a branch or shoot of a tree or shrub that has been cut or broken off 2) a relatively long and slender piece of wood 3) a long piece of wood for use as fuel, in carpentry, etc 4) a rod or wand 5) a baton 6) brit. Chiefly… …
64pediment — /ˈpɛdəmənt / (say peduhmuhnt) noun Architecture 1. a low triangular gable crowned with a projecting cornice, in the Greek, Roman, or Renaissance style, especially over a portico or porch or at the ends of a gable roofed building. 2. any member of …
