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How to pronounce architrave in English?

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Type Words
Type of support
Type Words
Type of molding, moulding

Examples of architrave

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It consists of two arches, columns, a plain architrave and a decorated frieze.
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The stone doorcase has a moulded architrave and a stone arch with a keystone.
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The Doric entablature is in three parts, the architrave, the frieze and the cornice.
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It is pretty much what is engraved on the architrave of the US supreme court building.
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The architrave, frieze, and cornices above the columns were covered with platinum leaf.
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Here, the architrave corners bore gorgons, surrounded by lions and perhaps other animals.
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An inscription, in the architrave of one of the Chapel doors, references the Synoptic events.
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In 2003, near this circular structure was found a stone architrave or lintel with a tabula ansata.
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The lower level was crowned with an Ionic architrave capped with dentils and a projecting geison.
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More examples
  • The molding around a door or window
  • The lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns
  • A term generally used for the molding around a door or window, and specifically used for the lowest level of the entablature, directly above the capital of a column.
  • A moulding used to surround a door, window, arch or wooden panelling, or the lowest horizontal moulding of a classical entablature.
  • 1. The lowest part of a classical entablature. 2. A molding enframing an opening such as a window or areaway or the open space between a rowhouse and the sidewalk, usually beside the stoop.
  • 1. Archit.- a chief beam, resting on columns 2. an ornament arching over a door or window
  • The horizontal element spanning the interval between two columns
  • An ornamental moulding fixed at the sides and tops of doors, windows and other openings. Its purpose is decorative and it also serves to cover the joints between the wall lining and adjacent woodwork.
  • Term used to name the various parts, such as a lintel, jamb and moldings, which surround a window or door.