architrave

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Recent Examples of architrave 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
  • Yet even in a ballpark with identical dimensions to Yankee Stadium, a place where many Boston batters hit well, their lone run was a solo homer by rookie Kristian Campbell, who continues to be a bright spot in a rapidly darkening frieze.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Design flourishes like the Ocean Bar’s bonefish frieze — complete with a top hat and cigar — add a playful wink to the otherwise polished aesthetic.
    Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The cornice is reminiscent of Mayan patterns and design; some scholars attribute the inspiration to his admiration of pre-Columbian architecture, while others attribute it to European design practices at the time.
    Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The addition neither aspires to novelty nor imitates great age, being free of balustrades, pilasters, dentil cornices, and all the other surface frosting that Beaux-Arts architects considered indispensable.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Mar. 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
  • Located at 25 West Hills Drive, a quiet cul-de-sac in Avon, this colonial has undeniable curb appeal enhanced by a central front door that is recessed for protection from the weather and defined by pilasters on either side.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Though more stately in its setting of classical pilasters and marble floors, the lobby El Bar del Majestic is pretty hopping too with live piano music.
    John Oseid, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The pilot eventually managed to land the airplane outside Belize City after being forced to circle the airspace between northern Belize and the capital.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
  • On the other side of the Nile, which runs through the capital, Babakir Khalid, 2 months old, gasped for breath.
    Declan Walsh, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Joe Mathews writes the Connecting California column for Zócalo Public Square.
    Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The mosaics date from that time, and the interior also boasts Classical columns plundered from other buildings, although it’s encased in a Neoclassical facade built in the 1700s.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Fire Department also responded to the call and said that the woman fell at least 50 feet down a shaft at a hydroelectric plant.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Archaeologists investigated and realized the newfound shaft was just part of a larger structure, most likely built as an escape tunnel during WWI.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Architrave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/architrave. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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