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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broken pediment

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

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

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

It consists of a double Corinthian order crowned by a broken pediment.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.

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