Coussinet
- n. That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
- n. A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.