Usage of "architrave"

ruso

эпистелион

portugués

arquitrave

español

epistilo

catalán

arquitravat

Element in Classical architecture, lintel beam.

epistilo

A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.

Sinónimos

Examples for "epistyle"

epistyle
epistylium

Examples for "epistyle"

They seem to have stood in the intercolumniations half-way up the outside wall and to have supported the epistyle. 
 The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28 

Uso de architrave en inglés

The architrave of the door is supported by two Corinthian pilasters. 
 Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 

The architrave of the colonnade is adorned with vases, connected together with festoons. 
 Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 

The windows of the uppermost floor are usually square, often without any architrave. 
 The Poetry of Architecture / Or, the Architecture of the Nations... 

Above, uniting craggy horn to horn, was an architrave of stars. 
 The Happy Foreigner 

And for the frieze and architrave, which is 4 br. 
 The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 

The entrance is through a large door whose sides and architrave are richly sculptured. 
 Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 

As they approached they read, carved into the marble architrave: 
 In the Sweet Dry and Dry 

It does not, for example, explain why the columns or the architrave should be uncolored. 
 A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ... 

Upon the architrave of the door, on both sides of the inscription, are masques in bas-relief. 
 Travels in Syria and the Holy Land 

The architrave was as ornate as the cornice. 
 Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ... 

But did you ever see either young or old amused by the architrave of the door? 
 The Two Paths 

From every architrave and cornice depended garlands and draperies, and tinted banners waved unseen in the dark. 
 The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil... 

There were cameras just below the architrave. 
 Artemis Fowl 

Ceilings, joists, and architrave are of Sethym wood, the roof of ebony, which can never catch fire. 
 Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great L... 

Lurk'd in each cornice, round each architrave- 
 Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe 

The horizontal lines of the architrave and cornice were more marked than the vertical lines of the columns. 
 Furnishing the Home of Good Taste / A Brief Sketch of the Period... 