entablature

From Italian intavolatura, from in + tavola (“table”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈtæ.blə.t͡ʃɚ/

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entablature (plural entablatures)

1. (architecture) All of that part of a classical temple above the capitals of the columns; includes the architrave, frieze, and cornice but not the roof.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 239:

     In the midst was one immense cedar, worthy to have been a summer palace on Lebanon; beneath, sheltered by its huge boughs from the sun, was a well, whose square marble walls were covered with the entablatures of the Roman days,—oval compartments of figures, surrounded by a carved wreath of the palm.

   • 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:

     Such a distinctive and pleasing feature did this become that it was widely adapted to brick construction, the outward projection of pilasters and engaged columns, often both, supporting pediments and entablatures which had the effect of increasing the depth of brick walls.

• entablement

• trabeated

• nature table, untreatable