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The Doric column shaft has no base, and the shaft has shallow concave grooves with sharp edges called fluting. The column is gently tapered on a curve known as entasis. Reset
below diagram of a Doric column
© Elizabeth Rankin and Amanda Skeet, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, 2004.