What is "pediments"

Usage examples of "pediments".

It offered so many columns, pediments, friezes, tripods, gladiators, urns and volutes that it looked as if it had not been built of white marble, but squeezed out of a pastry tube.

Etchings of Greek temples adorned the panels, too small to be distinguished, but presenting the unmistakable columns, pediments and crumbling stone.

While architects drew friezes and pediments, Henry Cameron decided that the skyscraper must not copy the Greeks.

He did much decorative work including the pediments of the temple of Athena at Tegea.