architraved

architraved

English

Etymology

architrave +‎ -ed

Adjective

architraved (not comparable)

1. (architecture) Furnished with an architrave.
   • 1791, William Cowper (translator), The Odyssey of Homer, Book 7, lines 105-108, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, London: J. Johnson, Volume 2, p. 151,

     […] the doors were gold

     Which shut the palace fast; silver the posts

     Rear’d on a brazen threshold, and above,

     The lintels, silver, architraved with gold.

   • 1914, Gertrude Bell, Palace and Mosque at Ukhaiḍir, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, Chapter 5, p. 130,

     The zone decoration becomes a pattern composed of innumerable groups of architraved and arched divisions, set one within the other, so as to cover the whole surface of the wall.

Translations

furnished with an architrave

French: architravé (fr) Portuguese: arquitravado