Meanings
- not comparablearchitectureFurnished with an architrave.
The zone decoration becomes a pattern composed of innumerable groups of architraved and arched divisions, set one within the other, so as to cover the whole surface of the wall.
1914, Gertrude Bell, chapter 5, in Palace and Mosque at Ukhaiḍir, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, page 1301 more example
1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, Book 7, lines 105-108, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 151, […] the doors were gold Which shut the palace fast; silver the posts Rear’d on a brazen threshold, and above, The lintels, silver, architraved with gold.
Origin
Translations
French architravé
- architravéfurnished with an architrave
Portuguese arquitravado
- arquitravadofurnished with an architrave
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