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 • Sep. 14, 2019

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 • Dec. 5, 2018

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 • Dec. 5, 2018

Above the horizontal overhang of the architrave casing across the lintel two beautifully carved consoles, the width of the frieze in height, support a cornice which is the base of a broken pediment.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

The frame is of wood entirely coated with silver, in the form of a Renaissance doorway with a fluted column on each side and a broken pediment over the top. 

From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing