entablatures in English
noun
1
a horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
Each column supported an appropriate entablature , on the frieze of which was inscribed Pro Patria, ‘reminding the legislator of the end and object of his delegation.’
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1. For example, ancient Greek temples juxtapose tall vertical columns and wide horizontal entablatures to create rigid perpendiculars.