Platt

Platt
- (platform) broad doorstep, landing on stair, cantilevered stone gallery access to tenement flats.
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→ Plattform f; (= stage) → Podium nt, → Bühne f
(Rail) → Bahnsteig m
(Pol) → Plattform f ...

Platt(Scots): Platform, doorstep or landing.Pleasance(Scots): Close or walled garden.PlinthProjecting courses at the foot of a wall or column, generally cut back (chamfered) or moulded at the top.

The Platte River Road Monument in Kearney, Nebraska, a museum that is also a bridge across a highway
Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World
Neighborhood development at Riverfront Park in the Central Platte Valley, Colorado ...

In art, John's head often appears on a platter because that is what Herod's stepdaughter, Salome, is said to have asked for.A theme of Christian art is the Beheading of St. John the Baptist.

Platt, Frederick. America's Gilded Age: Its Architecture and Decoration. South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1976.
White, Samuel D. The Houses of McKim, Mead & White. New York: Rizzoli, 1998.
White, Samuel D. McKim, Mead & White: The Masterworks.

See also: House, Architecture, Well, Ground, Landing