ENTASIS


Meaning of ENTASIS in English

[en.ta.sis] n, pl -ta.ses [Gk, lit., distension, stretching, fr. enteinen to stretch tight (fr. en-

[2]en- + teinein to stretch)--more at thin] (1664): a slight convexity esp. in the shaft of a column

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