pedestal

CEFRB2

/ˈpɛdɪstəl/

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
A place of reverence or honor.
The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

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He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
The state reached a deal with the city to remove the 40-foot granite pedestal the Lee statue sat on for more than a century.
The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”

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The table and two base pedestals cost more than $4,000. The pedestals are described as having “hand applied ebonized inlay with bell flowers topped by hand carved scrolls and a fluted column.”
2018 February 28, Rene Marsh, Ross Levitt, “See HUD’s $31,000 mahogany dining set”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022
The state reached a deal with the city to remove the 40-foot granite pedestal the Lee statue sat on for more than a century.
2021 December 15, Ami Vera, Artemis Moshtaghian, “Virginia to begin removal process of Robert E. Lee statue pedestal in Richmond, governor says”, in CNN, archived from the origina...
It’s an old, old story. We’ve all placed people on pedestals, and then, almost inevitably, they let us down. They violate our trust. They betray us. They fall off the pedestal, or we remove them.
2012 August 31, Todd Leopold, “When the hero falls off the pedestal”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022
But India is also where the Mahatma may have fallen furthest from the pedestal.
2019 October 2, Lauren Frayer, “Gandhi Is Deeply Revered, But His Attitudes On Race And Sex Are Under Scrutiny”, in NPR, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2020

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Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.