pediment
noun
(in classical architecture) a low gable, typically triangular with a horizontal cornice and raking cornices, surmounting a colonnade, an end wall, or a major division of a façade.
pedimental
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a word derived from
pediment.
Example Sentences
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London holds 17 pedimental figures, 15 panels and 247 feet of the frieze.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
In part it is quite sincere, since the almost threatening visual weight of those twin pale silo shafts and their pedimental cap does indeed suggest Karnak.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is very probable that the plinth does not belong to the pedimental sculptures at all, and Sauer's plan of the floor of the pediment seems to leave no room for it.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by A. H. Smith
But the characteristic type of pedimental door trim in Philadelphia takes a different form.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
In general arrangement it differs little from numerous other gable-roof structures of the vicinity, two and a half stories high with chimneys at each end and handsome pedimental dormers with round-topped windows between.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
