Element in Classical architecture, lintel beam.
A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.
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Examples for "epistyle "
1 They seem to have stood in the intercolumniations half-way up the outside wall and to have supported the epistyle .
1 The architrave of the door is supported by two Corinthian pilasters.
2 The architrave of the colonnade is adorned with vases, connected together with festoons.
3 The windows of the uppermost floor are usually square, often without any architrave .
4 Above, uniting craggy horn to horn, was an architrave of stars.
5 And for the frieze and architrave , which is 4 br.
6 The entrance is through a large door whose sides and architrave are richly sculptured.
7 As they approached they read, carved into the marble architrave :
8 It does not, for example, explain why the columns or the architrave should be uncolored.
9 Upon the architrave of the door, on both sides of the inscription, are masques in bas-relief.
10 The architrave was as ornate as the cornice.
11 But did you ever see either young or old amused by the architrave of the door?
12 From every architrave and cornice depended garlands and draperies, and tinted banners waved unseen in the dark.
13 There were cameras just below the architrave .
14 Ceilings, joists, and architrave are of Sethym wood, the roof of ebony, which can never catch fire.
15 Lurk'd in each cornice, round each architrave -
16 The horizontal lines of the architrave and cornice were more marked than the vertical lines of the columns.
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