Anna Karenina vocabulary

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Louis Quinze
damp course
balustrade
parapet
parquet floor
plinth
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plinth

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the base of a statue or column

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he sat down on the plinth of a column to wait for the service to end.

Ken Follett. The Pillars of the Earth, p.230 (1990)
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“To be sure, I heard Anna Arkadyevna talking yesterday about plinths and damp-courses,” said Veslovsky. “Have I got it right?”

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)
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I glanced at the plinth, where the tanner’s boy, in spite of encouragement from the regathered crowd, was still firmly pinioned.

Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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When the wainscoting was finished, he had the moulding and high plinths painted in indigo, a lacquered indigo like that which coachmakers employ for carriage panels.

Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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