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Recent Examples of entablature
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.
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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
Typically, colonnades form at the top and bottom of the flow (starting from the cooling surface) with a middle area of entablature (see above).
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
The parts of the flows with clear columns are called the colonnade while the areas where the columns are less-than-perfect or absent are the entablature.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
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
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
Those ornamental capitals on top of columns were a way to muffle the violence of a vertical pillar piercing into a horizontal beam or entablature.
—Anne Quito, Quartz, 19 Feb. 2020
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
Typically, colonnades form at the top and bottom of the flow (starting from the cooling surface) with a middle area of entablature (see above).
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
The parts of the flows with clear columns are called the colonnade while the areas where the columns are less-than-perfect or absent are the entablature.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
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
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
Those ornamental capitals on top of columns were a way to muffle the violence of a vertical pillar piercing into a horizontal beam or entablature.
—Anne Quito, Quartz, 19 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entablature
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On Wednesday, behind the office building where there are wall friezes created by McGraw-Hill, shy deer and a jackrabbit darted away.—
Richard Halstead,
Mercury News,
31 July 2025
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Instead, Adams places his characters like figures in a frieze, posing against a sweeping panoply of history.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
13 May 2025
Noun
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But in recent weeks, sometime after March, a series of ornate gold medallions—originally affixed to the ceiling cornice—have started to appear elsewhere in the room, as if the unique piece of decor were multiplying itself.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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The warehouse features a striking decorative concrete cornice made up of rectangles and squares.—
Chloe Arrojado,
AFAR Media,
15 Apr. 2025
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Upping the sheen for the trims (skirting boards and window and door architraves) adds a subtle variation and frames the room.—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 May 2025
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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
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Federal troops are patrolling the National Mall and neighborhoods across Washington while President Donald Trump’s administration exerts extraordinary power over law enforcement in the nation’s capital.—
John Seewer,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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The 12th-century castle was commissioned by William the Conqueror, and more than 900 Norman artifacts have been loaned by the British Museum to create its first medieval gallery outside of the UK capital.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
16 Aug. 2025
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Maureen Dowd writes a column for the New York Times.—
Maureen Dowd,
Twin Cities,
13 Aug. 2025
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Experience shows this approach distorts markets, erodes innovation and ultimately harms patients, the topic of one of my past columns.—
Rita Numerof,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But entering via the Park Avenue lobby, with its walls and pilasters of Rockwood stone, still feels like a moment.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
25 July 2025
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Looky-loo tourists with selfie sticks constantly stream past the white-on-white high-Victorian façade of pediments, pilasters, and cast iron.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2025
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Beneath the technical language are two cultural pillars every high-performing organization needs: personalization and empowerment.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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In the aftermath, Michael Hatcher said both the sheriff's office and local community had been pillars of support for his family.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Her 9-year-old heeler dog, Hailey, had accidentally fallen down an old mining shaft, rescuers said.—
Helena Wegner
July 8,
Sacbee.com,
8 July 2025
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Ventilation shafts will extend more than 200 meters above the tunnels, and a road junction will be built beneath the seabed near Kvitsøy.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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“Entablature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entablature. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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