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📚 noun • entry_id 20866

bolster

/ˈbɒlstə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
almohada • almohadón • cabecera
A large cushion or pillow, usually cylindrical in shape.
And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, / This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.
["]Don't you know how [Joseph Mallord William] Turner spoils his pictures by introducing a man like a bolster in the foreground? Well, in actual life every landscape is spoilt by m…
zapata
A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
matriz
The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
volutas
The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
Its [the Ionic's column's] ancient capital is generally formed of two parallel bolsters
📚 verb • entry_id 20867

bolster

/ˈbɒlstə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
reforzar • sostener
To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
However, once the bi-modes come on stream this [the power supply] will need to be bolstered by a feed at Braybrooke, just south of Market Harborough, for which reason the Departmen…
Puget also teamed up with Matt Hyde (Deftones, Slayer) to co-produce the record, which was another smart move: Together, the pair ensures that AFI (The Blood Album)'s arrangements…
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