: a horizontal architectural member spanning and usually carrying the load above an opening
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Examples of lintel in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThese, in turn, support stone lintels — horizontal spans also made of rock, some of which are slotted together with joints.—Evan Bush, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024 The museum had previously returned another object—the Vishnu lintel—to the same temple in the 1988.—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 18 June 2024 Although visually arresting, the actions on these lintels take place within the confines of the mundane world.—James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024 In 1988, the museum returned to Thailand a large fragment of the Vishnu lintel, part of a horizontal doorway support thought to have been looted from the temple in in the early 1960s.—News Desk, Artforum, 20 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for lintel
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Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French *lintel, alteration of linter threshold, from Late Latin limitaris, from Latin, constituting a boundary, from limit-, limes boundary
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