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architrave Arch.|ˈɑːkɪtreɪv|
[? a. F. architrave (ch soft), or It. arco-, architrave, f. archi- + trave:—L. trabem (nom. trabs) beam.]
1. The lowest division of the entablature, consisting of the main beam that rests immediately upon the abacus on the capital of a column; the epistyle.
1563Shute Archit. C i b, Vpon the Capitall shalbe layde or set Epistilium, named also Trabes, called in oure English tonge the Architraue. 1667Milton P.L. i. 710 Doric pillars overlaid With Golden Architrave. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 339 Stone-Heng is made up of three circles..the stones of each circle joyned with Architraves. 1789Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 102 The inscription is seen both in the frieze and architrave. 1856Bryant Forest Hymn 2 Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave.
2. Collective name for the various parts (lintel, jambs, and their mouldings) that surround a doorway or window. Also attrib.
1663Gerbier Counsel 76 Architrave doore-cases. 1725Pope Odyss. xxi. 46 Folding gates..With pomp of various architrave o'erlay'd. 1847Barham Ingol. Leg. (1877) 85 With a shell-pattern'd architrave over the door.
3. Ornamental moulding round the exterior of an arch. Also attrib.
1849Freeman Archit. 152 The arches too are channeled with architrave mouldings. |