entablature

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Recent Examples of entablature Like the Gran Trianon, Rosecliff has Ionic columns, French doors, and a multitiered entablature topped with intricate statues. Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2024 Typically, colonnades form at the top and bottom of the flow (starting from the cooling surface) with a middle area of entablature (see above). Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015 The parts of the flows with clear columns are called the colonnade while the areas where the columns are less-than-perfect or absent are the entablature. Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015 Columns in the Takachicho-kyo Gorge in Japan, showing the colonnade and entablature common in these columnar jointed basalt flows. Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015 The luxurious Breakfast Room’s fireplace ensemble, including Roman Doric columns supporting an exquisite entablature, is as brilliantly designed, if not as eye-catching, as the Banquet Hall’s triple fireplace. Catesby Leigh, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022 Bas reliefs on the entablature feature important thinkers such as Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass. Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2021 When it was built, the hotel was sided with smooth, dressed limestone slabs, brick columns and neoclassical terra cotta entablature. Irene North, The Seattle Times, 13 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entablature
Noun
  • At the center of the frieze, next to Dionysus’ companion Silenus, stands a woman.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Note, too, the gold mosaic frieze designed by artist Walter Crane, and shipped over piece by piece from Venice.
    Vogue, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The current owners have lovingly maintained and restored the home over the past 10 years, preserving many of its original elements, including intricate wall paneling, grand fireplaces, box cornices, and detailed architraves.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The gate is an imposing sandstone façade, beautifully detailed with wreaths, moldings, cornices, and other elements of classical architecture.
    Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The current owners have lovingly maintained and restored the home over the past 10 years, preserving many of its original elements, including intricate wall paneling, grand fireplaces, box cornices, and detailed architraves.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Drench a Room in Color Paint the whole room lavender, walls, doors, architraves, fireplaces, and all; the effect is brilliantly bold and ultra-contemporary, as evidenced by Sawyers’ Dupont Circle project.
    Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023
Noun
  • The Finnish goalie was on the other side of the Ullmark trade that brought the latter to Canada’s capital.
    Julian McKenzie, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • After the acquittal, rare in capital murder cases in Tarrant County, Delancy, who is 34, was to be released from jail on Wednesday evening.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Also in her restaurant news column: an early look at the new Santa Monica branch of Din Tai Fung plus notes on Lasung Tofu & Pot Rice in Koreatown, cocktail and dim sum bar Midnight Oil in Long Beach and the rebirth of the great Oaxacan restaurant Gish Bac as Casa Gish Bac, now in Pico-Union.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2025
  • In his most recent Sunday column , Jim made the case that the handful of Big Tech stocks could rise from the ashes.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There are showstoppers, like the Zaveri house (also known as the House with 365 Windows) which is now stained black with grit, its grand pilasters and geometric facade carvings in dire need of restoration, and the Teen Khuniya (or Three-Cornered House), with its distinctive triangular layout.
    Kalpana Sunder, CNN, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Designed to evoke the Pantheon, the rotunda’s curved sandstone walls are divided by fluted Doric pilasters with wreaths of olive branches carved in the frieze above.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • To combat these effects, conservation efforts, sustainable agriculture, and global restoration initiatives are essential to preserving forests as pillars of climate resilience and food sustainability.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • While representing different pillars of hip-hop, 50 and Kanye have been pop-culture fixtures for more than two decades.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Look for shafts labeled to indicate they are made for women.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Fairway woods with less of a loft angle in the club face have slightly longer shafts than those with more loft angle in the face.
    BestReviews, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025

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