Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pulvinatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PULVINA'TUS. Having a full or swelling contour, like a bolster or cushion; whence applied as a technical term by architects to the capitals of Ionic columns, the sides of which, formed by the lateral part of the volute, present a round or swelling shape, like a bolster as shown by the annexed example (Pulvinatus/1.1) from a capital belonging to the temple of Minerva Polias. Vitruv. i. 2. 6. Id. iii. 5. 5.

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  Pulvinatus/1.1