as in frieze
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Why wouldn’t the owner take the time to up-light the friezes?—
Sage Jessica Murphy,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Nov. 2024 -
The smoothed limestone blocks and cobra frieze already found at the site may be hiding such an entrance.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
27 Nov. 2024
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New plaster cornice and classical overdoor detail create focal points in the entry.—
Troy J. McMullen,
Architectural Digest,
13 Jan. 2025
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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
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As for the private capital lending, long-term equity and financing services provided by his new patron, Thompson acknowledges that his knowledge remains limited.—
Matt Craig,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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The only portion of the elementary school not to burn was the brand-new preschool that had just been built thanks, in part, to a $8.5-million capital campaign.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 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
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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
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The entire government believes that school is a fundamental architrave of our society.—
Irene Dominioni,
Forbes,
20 Apr. 2021
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The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr.,
USA TODAY,
21 Jan. 2025
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Here’s a column by Maureen Dowd on Trump’s Inaugural Address.—
German Lopez,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Taken together, the laws are designed to reshape key pillars of the US economy over the next decade.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
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The overall stability hides movement both up and down across individual pillars and metrics, as the tectonics of world order shifts.—
World Economic Forum,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Designed to evoke the Pantheon, the rotunda’s curved sandstone walls are divided by fluted Doric pilasters with wreaths of olive branches carved in the frieze above.—
Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2025
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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
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“Socle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/socle. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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