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buttress

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
buttress /ˈbʌtrɪs/

▶noun

1 a projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall.

2 a projecting portion of a hill or mountain.

▶verb support with buttresses.

■ support or strengthen: authority was buttressed by religious belief.

– origin ME: from OFr. (ars) bouterez ‘thrusting (arch)’, from boter (see butt1).

'buttress' also found in these Oxford entries:

counter - flying buttress - tambour

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