Column. A free-standing upright member of circular section and usually slightly tapering, normally intended as a support but sometimes erected as a monument. In classical architecture it consists of a shaft, capital, and, except in Greek Doric, a base (see order).

-- John Fleming, Hugh Honour & Nikolaus Pevsner, 1991
The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture
Penguin Books, London, England

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