Obs. [COUNTER- 8: cf. mod.F. contrepilastre.] An opposite or secondary pilaster; in quot. a pilaster projecting from a pier (which was formerly called a pilaster).
1730. A. Gordon, Maffei’s Amphith., 220–1. The Counter-pilaster, or the flat Pillar runs from the Foot of it to the Top. Ibid., 221. The lower Pilasters have … in the Middle of them, in place of our Counter-pilaster, a half Doric Pillar.
