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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2016-08-29 07:57 am

trilithon

trilithon (trey-LITH-on, TREY-luh-THON) or trilith - n., a structure consisting of two stone pillars supporting a horizontal stone.


A megalithic structure, that is -- best known from the five at Stonehenge. The top stone is the lintel, just as for a door, and the uprights are posts. Adopted in the 1740s from Greek trĂ­lithon, neuter of trĂ­lithos, having three stones, from tri-, three + lithos, stone.

---L.