英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈɑɹ.kɪ.tɹeɪv/
• enPR: ärʹkĭ-trāv′

名詞

architrave (plural architraves)

1. (architecture) The lowest part of an entablature; rests on the capitals of the columns.
   • 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia‎, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:

     Flutings also adorn the short architraves each side of the fanlight, and the abacus of the pilaster columns which is carried across a supplementary lintel in front of the lintel proper, the latter being several inches to the rear because of the deeply recessed arrangement of the door.

2. (architecture) The moldings (or other elements) framing a door, window or other rectangular opening.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 17:

     I know that one hinge of this door has parted with the woodwork. Dry rot has turned the architrave to compacted dust.

派生語

参考

• beam
• lintel