Illustration of entablature
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- 2 cornice
- 3 frieze
- 4 architrave
entablature
noun
en·tab·la·ture in-ˈta-blə-ˌchu̇r 
-chər,
-ˌt(y)u̇r
: a horizontal part in classical architecture that rests on the columns and consists of architrave, frieze, and cornice
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web 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
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 Word History
Etymology
obsolete French, modification of Italian intavolatura, from intavolare to put on a board or table, from in- (from Latin) + tavola board, table, from Latin tabula
First Known Use
1611, in the meaning defined above
entablatures
noun
as in friezes
Synonyms & Similar Words
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- friezes
- pilasters
- architraves
- cornices
- columns
- socles
- capitals
- pillars
- shafts
- arches
- buttresses
- mountings
- brackets
- mounts
- reinforcements
- girders
- props
- cantilevers
- supports
- shorings
- underpinnings
- shores
- spurs
- braces
- bolsters
- rostra
- bearings
- frames
- rostrums
- plinths
- stays
- struts
- tribunes
- trusses
- platforms
- feet
- pedestals
- stilts
- pegs
- stanchions
- stands
- crutches
- foundations
- foot
- podia
- stages
- podiums
- daises
- posts
- stakes
- bases