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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 86

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Architrave (from the Greek apcTios, chief;and the Latm trabs, a beam), the lowest divi-sion of an entablature, or that part restingimmediately upon the column. In the ancientGrecian edifices of the Doric order, the archi-trave is of very great height, having only onefacia, and being nearly equal to…

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