sb. pl. Arch. [cf. Fr. antes, ad. L. antas, acc. of ANTÆ.] = ANTÆ.
1789. Smyth, trans. Aldrich’s Archit. (1818), 102. Antes … are placed nowhere except in the angles, or at the junction of walls.
1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 292. Astounded and awed to the antes they clung.
