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1. a) one of the angles of a pediment. b) an ornament erected on it.2. a statue or ornament erected on a gable of a building.3. the ornamented tip of the prow on a galley.╂[< Latin acrōtērium < Greek akrōtērion summit < ákros tip, end]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.