[a. F. colonnette, dim. of colonne COLUMN.]
1. Arch. A small column.
1879. Sir G. Scott, Lect. Archit., I. 155. The delicate colonettes which decorate the mullions of windows.
1885. Athenæum, 6 June, 731/3. Colonnettes of ruddy porphyry.
2. Anat. A slender column of bone, etc.
1872. Cohen, Dis. Throat, 183. This network consists of colonnettes of greater or lesser size.