architrave

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The cymatium of the architrave should be one seventh of the height of the whole architrave, and its projection the same.

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  1. noun The lowermost part of an entablature in classical architecture that rests directly on top of a column. Also called epistyle.
  2. noun The molding around a door or window.

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  • Each of these three sides shall contain two tabernacles, resting on a basement which shall run round the said space, and shall be adorned with pilasters, architrave, frieze, and cornice, as appears in the little wooden model. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti
  • It would be as little reasonable to call a Roman triumphal arch Greek because it displays column, architrave, or a facing of marble from Greece. —  Horace and His Influence
  • As for the architrave, she continued, its total length was 4.2 metres but it was found to be broken in several pieces. —  Al-Ahram Weekly Online
  • The cymatium of the architrave should be one seventh of the height of the whole architrave, and its projection the same. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
  • Omitting the cymatium, the rest of the architrave is to be divided into twelve parts, and three of these will form the lowest fascia, four, the next, and five, the highest fascia. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
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  1. French, from Old French, from Old Italian : archi-, archi- + trave, beam (from Latin trabs, trab-; see treb- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = French architrave, from Italian architrave, from Latin archi- (see archi-), chief, + Italian trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs, a beam.
 

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/ˈɑrkɪtreɪv/
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