Meanings of handsome pillars in English

The House of Representatives is a beautiful and spacious hall, of semicircular shape, supported by handsome pillars.

On each side were handsome pillars said to have been brought to Solomon by the Queen of Sheba.

He enlarged the building by adding ten handsome pillars of carved marble, with gilt capitals, on the Northern side.

Some handsome pillars still stood amongst the heaps of ruins, and several rooms, which yet remained in fair preservation, gave evidence of former splendour.

Two rows of high handsome pillars, forty-eight in number, intersect the interior; and the beam-work, said to be of cedar-wood from Lebanon, looks almost new.

Adjoining this church on either side were arcades in the form of a half circle, supported by handsome pillars, beneath which several shops are established.