entablature
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English
Etymology
From Italian intavolatura, from in + tavola (“table”).
Pronunciation
Noun
entablature (plural entablatures)
- (architecture) All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 239:
- In the midst was one immense cedar, worthy to have been a summer palace on Lebanon; beneath, sheltered by its huge boughs from the sun, was a well, whose square marble walls were covered with the entablatures of the Roman days,—oval compartments of figures, surrounded by a carved wreath of the palm.
Synonyms
Translations
part of a classical temple
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