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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.
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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.
—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
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
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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
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The Brewers swing for the Bronx’s pearly white frieze to start a third consecutive NL Central title defense.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Of the several homes for sale in the building, Residence 5N is listed for $6.1 million and offers both modern living alongside exceptionally ornate, detailed moldings and carved pilasters.—
Emma Reynolds,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had dominated the capital for most of the war, with the Sudanese army forced to set up a wartime hub at Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast.—
Emmanuel Akinwotu,
NPR,
6 Apr. 2025
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In Arkansas, a 5-year-old was killed Saturday by storms in the capital of Little Rock.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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These monumental columns, the hollow stone that bears witness to millennia of history - speaks louder than words.—
Shivani Vora,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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There's already a pullout there road pullout there for visitors to stop and see the column of steam shooting into the sky.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Apr. 2025
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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
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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 16 Apr. 2025.
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