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entablature

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From Italian intavolatura, from in tavola (table).

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  • IPA(key): /ɛnˈtæ.blə.t͡ʃɚ/

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entablature (plural entablatures)

  1. (architecture) All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 239:
      In the midst was one immense cedar, worthy to have been a summer palace on Lebanon; beneath, sheltered by its huge boughs from the sun, was a well, whose square marble walls were covered with the entablatures of the Roman days,—oval compartments of figures, surrounded by a carved wreath of the palm.

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