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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



... I never looked to Andriaovsky for tact; but I stared at him for his lack of it that night. And as I stared I noticed for the first time the broad and low pylon of his forehead, his handsome mouth and chin, and the fire and wit and scorn that smouldered behind his cheap spectacles. I looked again; and his smallness, his malice, his pathetic little braggings about his poverty, ...
— Widdershins • Oliver Onions


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