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entablatures

entablatures is the plural of entablature.

Meaning of entablature

Noun

entablature (plural entablatures)

  1. All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
    • In the midst was one immense cedar, worthy to have been a summer palace on Lebanon; beneath, sheltered by its huge boughs from the sun, was a well, whose square marble walls were covered with the entablatures of the Roman days,—oval compartments of figures, surrounded by a carved wreath of the palm.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239
    Synonyms:
    entablement

Questions about entablatures

What is entablatures the plural of?
Entablatures is the plural of entablature.

Words near entablatures in the dictionary

  1. Enszes
  2. ent
  3. ent-
  4. entablature
  5. entablatured
  6. entablatures
  7. entable
  8. entabled
  9. entablement
  10. entablements
  11. entables

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