Plinth

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A plinth is the base of a cabinet in cabinet making.

In architecture, a plinth is the base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests.[1]

Hoysala temple on plinth

Plinth of the Sign of the Kiwi, Dyers Pass, Port Hills, Christchurch (NZ) c 1917

square granite plinth with a peace symbol in Canberra Peace Park Canberra

Spartan plinth beds -Kanheri Caves

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Poppeliers, John C. (1983). What Style is it?. New York: John Wiley & Sons, p 104. ISBN 0471144347. 

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