Thesaurus results for ENTABLATURE

entablature

noun

as in frieze

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Recent Examples of entablature 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 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 Like the Gran Trianon, Rosecliff has Ionic columns, French doors, and a multitiered entablature topped with intricate statues. —

Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2024 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 Columns in the Takachicho-kyo Gorge in Japan, showing the colonnade and entablature common in these columnar jointed basalt flows. —

Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015

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Noun

Those features slowly come into focus beyond its towering red brick facade that is punctuated by Dutch gabling, an ornamental frieze, and eye-catching ironwork.

— Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 13 Apr. 2026
In contrast to other examples of Greek temple art and even other parts of the Parthenon, where mythic gods and heroes predominate, the frieze shows everyday mortals, perhaps even the contemporaries of those who carved it and viewed it.

— James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026