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US
/ˈɑɹkəˌtɹeɪv/
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[ UK /ˈɑːkɪtɹˌeɪv/ ]
[ UK /ˈɑːkɪtɹˌeɪv/ ]
NOUN
- the molding around a door or window
- the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns
How To Use architrave In A Sentence
- In greco-roman architecture it is a horizontal Band, often decorated with relief sculpture , Between the architrave and cornice of a Building.
- This two bedroom duplex apartment has a private entrance hall and retains original Victorian features including high ceilings, decorative architraves and period fireplaces.
- With an original oak floor, this area also features a carved oak ceiling rose, pediments, cornices and architraves.
- The prostyle is in all respects like the temple in antis, except that at the corners, opposite the antae, it has two columns, and that it has architraves not only in front, as in the case of the temple in antis, but also one to the right and one to the left in the wings. The Ten Books on Architecture
- Conversely, a kappa recorded by Lanckoronski after the name "Aurelius" on one of the other architraves after the name Aurelius seems to identify the emperor as Marcus Aurelius 'son and successor, Commodus (A.D. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Macellum Report 3
- The fact that the vault is also has a fasciated architrave on its north side, facing the seats, where it does not continue, suggests that it was opening above the adjoining seats. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Odeion Report 1
- It bears all the hallmarks of a Post-Modernist interpretation of a historical facade, with architraves and lintels in cast aluminium.
- After crude conversions, little remained of the building's original interior, except for some door architraves, cornices and a graceful staircase, brutally divided from the main space by a fireproof partition.
- The facing of it, or architrave, was often ornamented with the zig-zag, billet, and other mouldings.
- Therefore, the architrave could not have extended to and rested properly upon such a wall (the stoas GD 3, 98, and 100 are flanked by long or short walls that were aligned with the columns).