Entasis Small 214×320 Medium 428×640 Large 685×1024 Download Tiff Original 1605×2400 | (498.9 KB) Description "In architecture, the swelling or outward curve of the profile of the shaft of a column. Entasis. e e, arcs of entasis." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords arc, architecture, bulge, columns, curve, entasis, order Galleries Columns: Complete Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911) Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman
