Pillarlike

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a pillar.

    "At another, now upside down but still pillarlike, he makes a further such display, tapping his foot as if he had time to kill, and all this were mere ennui."

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"At another, now upside down but still pillarlike, he makes a further such display, tapping his foot as if he had time to kill, and all this were mere ennui."

Etymology

From pillar + -like.

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