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pediment

/ped-uh-muhnt/US // ˈpɛd ə mənt //UK // (ˈpɛdɪmənt) //

墙裙,拱门,墙面装饰板,墙面装饰物

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : any imitation of this, often fancifully treated, used to crown an opening, a monument, etc., or to form part of a decorative scheme.
    • : Geology. a gently sloping rock surface at the foot of a steep slope, as of a mountain, usually thinly covered with alluvium.

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Examples

  • Easy to carve and freely split in any direction without shattering, the stone was commonly used throughout Virginia for pediments, quoins and other decorative details in 18th-century houses and churches.

  • In the carving, the temple is depicted with a classical pediment front and a colonnade of columns supporting the structure.

  • Over each compartment is a pediment decorated in the centre with shields.

  • Over the central door are small figures in bas-relief, and in the pediment above one reads, 131 "Ici fut la Maison de Molire."

  • Then, at the query, an unkempt, illclad lassie slipped from her stool and leaned out over the pediment of a tomb.

  • The arch is composed of two unequal segments of a circle, which form a sort of natural pediment.

  • There is a two-necked stone eagle (the Barbaro crest), with a copper crown, in the centre of the pediment.