pediment 的定义
- 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.
pediment 近义词
等同于 rest
等同于 bottom
等同于 undersurface
更多pediment例句
- 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.