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What is the noun for buttress?

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buttress
  1. (architecture) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
  2. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
  3. (botany) A buttress-root.
  4. (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
  5. (figuratively) Anything that supports or strengthens.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “This outer face of the gatehouse is shored up by a massive buttress on either side.”
      “Such monopoly was the basic element of mercantilism, the keystone of its success, and the buttress of its stability.”
      “He lauds the Republic as a buttress against the evils of imperialist designs in the region.”
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