entablement
(ɛnˈteɪb(ə)lmənt)
[a. F. entablement, f. entabler, f. en- (see en-1) + table table.]
a. = entablature. b. The horizontal platform or graduated series of platforms supporting a statue and placed above the dado and the base.
| 1664 Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. (R.), They differ nothing either in height, substance, or entablement from the feminine Ionic, and masculine Doric. 1708 New View Lond. II. 402/1 Columns and Entablement of the Corinthian Order. 1800 Month. Mag. XIII. 18 Dado..means (1) the cubic part of the pedestal of a column, or of a statue, included between the base and the entablement. 1865 Reader 9 Dec. 662 The figure..standing upon a series of entablements. |