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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French colonnette.
Noun
colonnette (plural colonnettes)
- (architecture) a small, thin column, especially one used to support an arcade
French
Etymology
From colonne + -ette.
Pronunciation
Noun
colonnette f (plural colonnettes)
- a small column
1896, Pierre Louÿs, Aphrodite:Et c’était là, dans une petite maison blanche à terrasse et à colonnettes, qu’ils l’avaient laissée deux mois après, […] .- And it was there, in a small white house with a terrace and small columns, that they had left her two months later,
Further reading
Italian
Noun
colonnette f
- plural of colonnetta