Architrave: Definition and part of speech

Architrave

  1. n. The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form.
  2. n. The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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