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nouna support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building
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"buttress your thesis"verbmake stronger or defensibletype of:
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verbreinforce with a buttress
Definition that contains buttress
- gothic a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
- pinnacle (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower
- sycamore thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
- braced held up by braces or buttresses
- buttress reinforce with a buttress
- buttressed held up by braces or buttresses
- terrietia small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
- heritiera small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
- genus heritiera small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses
- genus terrietia small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses