What is "lintels"

Usage examples of "lintels".

Walaricus had a tidy look about it, everything squared off, the lintels painted with intertwined spirals and linked circles flowering into wreaths and the tower decorated with a carved tree on each face, painted silver.

God by the beauty of its ornamentation, these lintels had been carved by master artisans.

For one thing, Ivar had never before seen a stone circle in as perfect repair as this one was, each stone upright and all the lintels intact.

I stood, breathing deeply but not heavily, under one the lintels in the outer circle of stone.

Thus one sees brickwork, shutters, lintels, even balustrades, all executed in relief to fool the eye into thinking them actually present.