architrave

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Recent Examples of architrave Upping the sheen for the trims (skirting boards and window and door architraves) adds a subtle variation and frames the room. Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2025 The researchers also studied a group of architrave blocks, which would have been positioned just above the columns of a building. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025 The current owners have lovingly maintained and restored the home over the past 10 years, preserving many of its original elements, including intricate wall paneling, grand fireplaces, box cornices, and detailed architraves. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2025 Drench a Room in Color Paint the whole room lavender, walls, doors, architraves, fireplaces, and all; the effect is brilliantly bold and ultra-contemporary, as evidenced by Sawyers’ Dupont Circle project. Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023 The entire government believes that school is a fundamental architrave of our society. Irene Dominioni, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021 The 59-foot-high structure, topped with an architrave, is made from marble from Mount Pentelicus, also used for the Parthenon. History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for architrave
Noun
  • The exterior is divided into three horizontal sections: one from stone, then brick, and finally a terra-cotta frieze.
    Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
  • Bennett enlisted the teen-age McNally to scrape old paint off a plaster frieze in his sitting room; when McNally returned a year later, he was astonished to see the walls’ transformation.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • Then, nearing the top, the group encountered a large cornice.
    Zoe Gates, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The lobby occupies a long, narrow hallway with arches, vaulted ceilings, checkerboard floors, and cornices.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Like the Gran Trianon, Rosecliff has Ionic columns, French doors, and a multitiered entablature topped with intricate statues.
    Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Typically, colonnades form at the top and bottom of the flow (starting from the cooling surface) with a middle area of entablature (see above).
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
Noun
  • The front door, defined by wide pilasters and sidelights topped by a crosshead with transom windows beckons visitors to step into an impressive and welcoming entry hall.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2025
  • What to look for: Large porch and classical corner pilasters.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Haitians continue to flee poverty, hunger and political instability deepens while police and a U.N.-backed mission fight a surge in gang violence, with armed men controlling at least 85% of its capital, Port-au-Prince.
    Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
  • Gangs control at least 85% of its capital, Port-au-Prince, and have launched attacks in the country’s central region in recent years.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Four Seasons at Tower Bridge is grand in scale — think domed ceilings, Corinthian columns, and hushed corridors echoing with 1920s glamour — but down in the spa, everything softens.
    Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
  • Send news to include in this column about people and events in the community to susansoldavin@gmail.com.
    Susan Soldavin, Baltimore Sun, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • The tools—mostly spear shafts and projectile points used for hunting reindeer and bison—were thought to have been crafted from whale bones, based on their porous appearance.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 May 2025
  • The team is standing at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 May 2025

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“Architrave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/architrave. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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