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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.
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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.
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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.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2025
The entire government believes that school is a fundamental architrave of our society.
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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.
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History Magazine,
3 Dec. 2020
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
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
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In the Forum’s main lobby, easily overlooked, a 175-foot aluminum frieze by Chicago artist Theaster Gates, using photos of city life from the Johnson Publishing archives.
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The artist Theaster Gates, who has paid tribute to Black life and Black beauty in the center’s Forum building with a frieze of archival images from Ebony and Jet magazines, is also a neighbor to the center with his cultural revitalization projects through the Rebuild Foundation.
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Windows cornice the terracotta roofs of Rome, the city’s domes, bell towers and hidden courtyards.
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Designers maintained or upgraded as many original pieces as possible, like fireplaces, cornice work and windows.
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Early plans, according to Smithsonian magazine, included an entablature with a short history of the country, a staircase, a Hall of Records to include the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the torsos of each president featured.
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Like the Gran Trianon, Rosecliff has Ionic columns, French doors, and a multitiered entablature topped with intricate statues.
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Even now, its fins and pilasters adorn plenty of new construction, and in real-estate-speak, the phrase is code for high class.
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And then this pilaster rising up.
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The action required is not cultural goodwill but actual capital, flowing from institutions, from investors, and from women with wealth toward the work of building these tables.
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Downtown Sacramento was awash in Dodger blue as thousands of fans poured into the capital city for a three-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the A’s that concludes Wednesday.
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Zach Wichter is a travel reporter and wrote the Cruising Altitude column for USA TODAY.
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United is a staple of the gossip column and so supporters must take any reporting about transfer targets linked to their club with a pinch of salt.
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Bond-building treatments, which work on the internal structure of the hair shaft, are a different category but often used in the same rotation.
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During anagen, cells at the base of the follicle divide rapidly, pushing the hair shaft outward at roughly half an inch per month on a healthy scalp.
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“Architrave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/architrave. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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