broken pediment

American  

noun

Architecture.

1. a pediment, as over a doorway or window, having its raking cornice interrupted at the crown or apex.

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Example Sentences

Beyond the broken pediment front door and columned front porch lie nearly 5,000 square feet of living space.

From Los Angeles Times

The glass interrupted the tower’s pulled-taffy proportions, and spoiled what was even more distinctive than the broken pediment: the supersized Italianate portico, facing Madison Avenue, with its semicircular arches and big, quasi-ecclesiastical rose window.

From New York Times

Detractors talked about the broken pediment on the city skyline as if it were the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from “Ghostbusters,” another mid-80s confectionary menace.

From New York Times

With a Chippendale-inspired broken pediment at the top and a Renaissance-inspired colonnade at the bottom, the building was instantly identifiable, a shape as firmly fixed in the public imagination as the shapes of the Citicorp Center and the Chrysler Building.

From New York Times

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From New York Times