Crossword clues for entablature
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entablature \En*tab"la*ture\ (?; 135), n. [OF. entablature: cf. It intavolatura, fr. LL. intabulare to construct a basis; L. in + tabulatum board work, flooring, fr. tabula. See Table.] (Arch.) The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.
Note: It is commonly divided into architrave, the part
immediately above the column; frieze, the central
space; and cornice, the upper projecting moldings.
--Parker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context architecture English) All that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof
WordNet
n. (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof
Wikipedia
An entablature (; nativization of Italian intavolatura, from in "in" and tavola "table") refers to the superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals. Entablatures are major elements of classical architecture, and are commonly divided into the architrave (the supporting member immediately above; equivalent to the lintel in post and lintel construction), the frieze (an unmolded strip that may or may not be ornamented), and the cornice (the projecting member below the pediment). The Greek and Roman temples are believed to be based on wooden structures, the design transition from wooden to stone structures being called petrification.
Usage examples of "entablature".
The enclosure of the bema, with its columns and entablatures, was of silver gilt, and set with gems and pearls.
Your hasty judgments stay, Until the topmost cyme Have crowned the last entablature of Time.
The sacred screen now before me mounts its head into the dome, and presents an imposing and even an architectonic aspect, but certain details, such as classic mouldings of columns, and a broken entablature, pronounce the edifice to be comparatively modern.
Emmeline entered her home by a hall pannelled with dark wainscot, and surrounded by carved doors, surmounted with heavy entablatures.
Dapperly decked was he in the habit of the professional barlord: white shirt, black trews, black weskit and clip-on dicky bow, plus a very dashing pair of cufflinks whose enamelled entablatures spoke of a Masonic connection.
Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of ages.
However, most of the ornate spires, great sweeping colonnades, and huge rotundas, with their tall round-topped arches, monolithic lintels, and carved entablatures, were now engulfed by a sprawl of ersatz rococo domes and obelisks, which catered to the banal tastes of the gamblers and hedonists who frequented the planet in droves, and the whole of it was fissured by a labyrinth of narrow stairways, curving ramps, sheltered bridges, and dank tunnels.
Immediately a man climbed on the entablature at the west end of the division wall, and took down one of the conical wooden balls.
The crowd increased every moment, and, like water that rises above its level, began to mount along the walls, to swell about the pillars, to cover the entablatures, the cornices, all the salient points of the architecture, all the rilievos of the sculpture.