trabeation Arch.
(treɪbiːˈeɪʃən)
Also 6 trabiacion.
[irreg. for *trabation, f. L. trab-s, trab-em beam: see -ation.]
† a. A member resembling a horizontal beam; an entablature. Obs. b. Construction with horizontal beams or the like, as opposed to arches or vaults; trabeated structure.
| 1563 Shute Archit. C j b, This pillor..supported no other..but his owne Trabiacions. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Trabeation, or Entablature,..comprehends the Architrave, Frize, and Cornice. 1831 Fraser's Mag. IV. 283 To apply to an entire cornice, or even to a whole ‘trabeation’, those curved forms which have hitherto been exclusively confined to mouldings and lesser details. a 1878 Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 19 Arcuation plastered over to look like trabeation. |