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scamillus

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sca⋅mil⋅lus

  [skuh-mil-uhs]
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–noun Architecture.
1. a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.
2. a plain stone beneath the plinth of a column.
Origin:
< L, dim. of scamnum stool, bench
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