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
  • 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
  • Note, too, the gold mosaic frieze designed by artist Walter Crane, and shipped over piece by piece from Venice.
    Vogue, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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 gate is an imposing sandstone façade, beautifully detailed with wreaths, moldings, cornices, and other elements of classical architecture.
    Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 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
  • 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
  • Rising above the great staircase is a builder’s catalogue of pilasters, cornices, corners, lion’s heads, dentils, robed muses, medallions, scrolls, and arched niches.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 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
  • Of the 22 columns, 12 were profitable and 12 beat the index.
    John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Submit your questions here and Joe Buscaglia will answer them in his mailbag column.
    Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Because a bat has a thick barrel and rotates when swung, its motion and power depend on the distribution of weight across the entire shaft, not just in one spot.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Power is transferred to the back wheel via a shaft drive and six-speed gearbox.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Architrave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/architrave. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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