colonette means A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.“What is now revealed, in a limestone several shades blonder than the rest of the cathedral, are crisp buttresses, gables, colonettes, gargoyles, pinnacles, crockets and ornaments known as trefoils (three cusps), quatrefoils (four cusps) and cinquefoils (five cusps).”