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noun
Pylon  n.  
1.
(a)
A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway. "Massive pylons adorned with obelisks in front."
(b)
An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).
2.
A tower, commonly of steelwork, for supporting either end of a wire, as for a telegraph line, over a long span.
3.
(Aeronautics)
(a)
Formerly, a starting derrick (the use of which is now abandoned) for an aeroplane.
(b)
A post, tower, or the like, as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight.





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"Pylon" Quotes from Famous Books



... the dark shadows of a huge pylon at one end of the broad white terrace of the palace of Pepi in Memphis—he, Ma-Rim[o]n, Priest of Amen-Ra and Initiate ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith
... but represents two or three successive periods of construction, Ramses II., of the Nineteenth Dynasty, having given it its final form by adding to an already finished building all that now stands before the second pair of towers. As so extended, the building has three pylons, as they are called, pylon being the name for the pair of sloping-sided towers with gateway between. Behind the first pylon comes an open court surrounded by a cloister with double rows of columns. The second and third pylons are connected with one another ...
— A History Of Greek Art • F. B. Tarbell
... a raised platform commences an avenue of Crio-sphinxes leading to the front propyla, before which stood two granite statues of a Pharaoh. One of these towers retains a great part of its original height, but has lost its summit and cornice. Passing through the pylon of these towers you arrive at a large open court, or area, 275 feet by 329 feet, with a covered corridor on either side, and a double line of columns down the centre. Other propylaea terminate this area, with a small ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy


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