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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.
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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
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
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Note, too, the gold mosaic frieze designed by artist Walter Crane, and shipped over piece by piece from Venice.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
22 Feb. 2025
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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
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Right at the top there are intricate cornices – decorative fittings between the wall and the edge of the roof – which were also common in the 1930s era that Studio Central is set in.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Loveland's Wild Child: Drop the cornice or find the entrance, either way, be prepared for a steep, short run that's hikeable above Super Bowl.—
John Frank,
Axios,
23 Dec. 2024
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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
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The entire government believes that school is a fundamental architrave of our society.—
Irene Dominioni,
Forbes,
20 Apr. 2021
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov will fly to the Saudi capital later in the day.—
Matthew Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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The journalists traveled to Haiti to show the grim extent of the devastation and barbarism wrought by the gang warfare that has sown chaos in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.—
Katie Robertson,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr.,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns, editorials and more.—
Krista Kafer,
The Denver Post,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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Though more stately in its setting of classical pilasters and marble floors, the lobby El Bar del Majestic is pretty hopping too with live piano music.—
John Oseid,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Germany could be one of the countries most exposed to tariffs if they are implemented as exports are a key pillar for its economy.—
Chloe Taylor,Sawdah Bhaimiya,Jenni Reid,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2025
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There he is befriended by Tommy, a seeming pillar of the community.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2025
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The teenager and his friends traveled about 180 feet into the mine shaft and the side of the mountain to explore and rappelled 40 to 50 feet down using a household rope, Cal Fire said.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2025
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Prospect holes and shaft openings scarred the rough canyon walls at all levels.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Entablature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entablature. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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