Crossword clues for architrave
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Epistyle \Ep"i*style\, n. [L. epistylium, Gr. ?; 'epi` upon + ? column: cf. F. ['e]pistyle.] (Anc. Arch.) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) The lowest part of an entablature; rests on the capitals of the columns. 2 (context architecture English) The mouldings (or other elements) framing a door, window or other rectangular opening.
WordNet
n. the molding around a door or window
the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns
Wikipedia
An architrave (; from "chief beam", also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον epistylon "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns. It is an architectural element in Classical architecture.
The term can also be applied to all sides, including the vertical members, of a frame with mouldings around a door or window. The word architrave is also used to refer more generally to a style of mouldings (or other elements) framing the top of a door, window or other rectangular opening, where the horizontal "head" casing extends across the tops of the vertical side casings where the elements join (creating a butt joint, as opposed to a miter joint).
Usage examples of "architrave".
He found the instrument pre-empted by Doc Lem Architrave, an unfrocked osteopath, who was vainly trying to impress Bellevue with the urgent need for an ambulance.
He was standing on his feet when Red Fred, alerted by the almost osmotic disappearance of Doc Lem Architrave, observed that the fuzz had made the scene after all.
But now he saw that it was obviously two thirds of the way down, quite near the architrave topping the huge useless Gothic gateway set between Estrey and Morton.
The wide architrave surrounding it was carved and gilded, with cherubim set at the corners and the symbols of the four evangelists ranged across the lintel.
The cement dragon now stood at the edge of the gutter, as if about to walk over to Morton along the architrave of the big gateway.
He walked across the architrave to stand above the Dhaila every night, though it did not stop time from flowing and autumn from fleeting on its seasonal path.
There was no pulse in the wrists, no heartbeat in the architrave under the breast.
The curved architraves rise at each extremity like two menacing horns, pointing upward toward the far-off blue canopy of the star-spangled sky, as if they would communicate to the gods the knowledge they have acquired in the depths of their foundations from the earth, full of sepulchres and death, which surrounds them.
The Wanderer To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves, Back of old-storied spires and architraves To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut, And roused by street-cries in strange tongues when day Flooded with gold some domed metropolis, Between new towers to waken and new bliss Spread on his pillow in a wondrous way: These were his joys.
On either side were fallen columns and architraves whose carvings were too weathered for Garric to be quite sure of their subject.
And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud.
Venerable Bede was new-old: reinforced concrete buildings with precast columns, architraves, plinths, caryatids, and whatnot glued on the outside to simulate age.
Shadows clung like billows of smoke to the curled, hornlike capitals and, above them, the infrastructure of the massive three-tiered architrave.
On either side were fallen columns and architraves whose carvings were too weathered for Garric to be quite sure of their subject.
And count as framework to the stagery Yon architraves of sunbeam-smitten cloud.