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What does entablature mean?

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Noun
  1. (architecture) All that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof
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The six Roman heroes stand high up in the side arches, above the entablature that crowns the actual windows in the wall.
The piers and pilasters carry a deep entablature which was enriched with triglyphs and mutules.
The horizontal shelf above the columns is called the trabeation or entablature.
Morgan here says you find the abacus between the triglyphs in the frieze section of the entablature of classical Greek Doric temples.
Each of the four straight arches is flanked on either side by an engaged Doric column and surmounted by an entablature.
Above the Ionic entablature, the vertical thrust from below is carried skyward by pedestals supporting kraters aligned with the engaged columns.

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