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Recent Examples of architrave
Upping the sheen for the trims (skirting boards and window and door architraves) adds a subtle variation and frames the room.
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Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2025
The researchers also studied a group of architrave blocks, which would have been positioned just above the columns of a building.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
The current owners have lovingly maintained and restored the home over the past 10 years, preserving many of its original elements, including intricate wall paneling, grand fireplaces, box cornices, and detailed architraves.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2025
The entire government believes that school is a fundamental architrave of our society.
—Irene Dominioni, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
The 59-foot-high structure, topped with an architrave, is made from marble from Mount Pentelicus, also used for the Parthenon.
—History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 May 2025
The researchers also studied a group of architrave blocks, which would have been positioned just above the columns of a building.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025
The current owners have lovingly maintained and restored the home over the past 10 years, preserving many of its original elements, including intricate wall paneling, grand fireplaces, box cornices, and detailed architraves.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 Mar. 2025
The entire government believes that school is a fundamental architrave of our society.
—Irene Dominioni, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
The 59-foot-high structure, topped with an architrave, is made from marble from Mount Pentelicus, also used for the Parthenon.
—History Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for architrave
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The long, two-part frieze, featuring images printed on aluminum alloy, will hang inside the center’s Forum Building.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
16 Dec. 2025
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Nearly 50 years would pass before Gardner climbed that tower again, this time in search of inspiration from the terra cotta friezes of birds of prey and Native American warriors that are carved into the side of the school’s building.—
Diana Lambdin Meyer,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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While some might say adding a cornice is already thinking outside of the box, why stop there?—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
1 Nov. 2025
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Between its rusticated limestone base, arched windows, and the eight-foot-high cornice that crowns its roofline, the building still has the kind of elegance that never feels dated.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
30 Oct. 2025
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There are other stops on the tour: the great room, which also features marble columns and marble entablatures, enhanced by wooden moldings and ceilings.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
7 Dec. 2025
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Early plans, according to Smithsonian magazine, included an entablature with a short history of the country, a staircase, a Hall of Records to include the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the torsos of each president featured.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
5 July 2025
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In the end, Laffrey, whose Broadway credits include Maybe Happy Ending and Parade, settled for using an iPhone app to record the size of pilasters and mullioned mirrors.—
Carey Purcell,
Architectural Digest,
27 Oct. 2025
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With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Community development financial institutions are banks, credit unions, loan funds and capital funds that have a mission to provide help to underserved, often low-income or rural, communities.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Jan. 2026
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School can be an awful place, where social capital is built on a person’s acceptance by a group, and any difference is sniffed out and mocked, sometimes worse.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Jermaine Eluemunor of the New York Giants, Justin Skule of the Minnesota Vikings, and Braxton Jones of the Chicago Bears could make sense in that column.—
Mike Kaye
Updated January 13,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Jan. 2026
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Presenter Minnie Driver brought even more gleam to the carpet in a strapless column dress with embellished semi-sheer panels plus jewelry by Rahaminov Diamonds and Saidian Vintage Jewels.—
Jackie Fields,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Thanks to their short shaft, these boots can be worn with any kind of pants without restriction—from bootcut jeans and wide-leg travel pants to leggings and joggers.—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Jan. 2026
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To quantify the system’s mechanical output, a sensor tracks the oscillation angle while an electromagnetic brake regulates shaft resistance to simulate varying power loads.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Jan. 2026
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