Entablature
/ɛnˈtæ.blə.t͡ʃɚ/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
- 2 (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Italian intavolatura, from in + tavola (“table”).