architraved
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From architrave + -ed.
Adjective
[edit]architraved (not comparable)
- (architecture) Furnished with an architrave.
- 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, Book 7, lines 105-108, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 151,[1]
- […] the doors were gold
- Which shut the palace fast; silver the posts
- Rear’d on a brazen threshold, and above,
- The lintels, silver, architraved with gold.
- 1914, Gertrude Bell, chapter 5, in Palace and Mosque at Ukhaiḍir[2], Oxford: The Clarendon Press, page 130:
- The zone decoration becomes a pattern composed of innumerable groups of architraved and arched divisions, set one within the other, so as to cover the whole surface of the wall.
- 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, Book 7, lines 105-108, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 151,[1]
Translations
[edit]furnished with an architrave
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