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scamillus

[skuh-mil-uhs]

noun Architecture.

a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.

a plain stone beneath the plinth of a column.

Origin:
< Latin, diminutive of scamnum stool, bench

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