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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Anta \An"ta\, noun; pl. {Ant[ae]}. [L.] (Arch.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Note: Porches, when columns stand between two ant[ae], are called in Latin in antis.
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