Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A decorative molding carried around an arched wall opening.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ornamental molding or band of moldings on the face of an arch following the contour of the extrados; an arch-molding. Also called
architrave .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.
- noun More commonly, the molding or other ornaments with which the wall face of the voussoirs of an arch is charged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture An
ornamental molding orband following thecurve on theunderside of anarch .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The archivolt that sat above the twenty-foot entrance was inlaid with exquisite gold Arabic calligraphy and the monograms of Sultans Mehmed II and Abdul Aziz I.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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The archivolt that sat above the twenty-foot entrance was inlaid with exquisite gold Arabic calligraphy and the monograms of Sultans Mehmed II and Abdul Aziz I.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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The archivolt that sat above the twenty-foot entrance was inlaid with exquisite gold Arabic calligraphy and the monograms of Sultans Mehmed II and Abdul Aziz I.
The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010
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An early 12th century church archivolt has an Arthurian scene, perhaps carved by a Breton, that labels Guinevere as 'Winlogee.'
Cadafael, King of Gwynedd Carla 2009
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This week the carving of missing voussoirs or archivolt blocks belonging to the first arch of the back wall started as well.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 6 2003
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Stone carvers Eva Leplat and Mustafa Özkavak are constantly busy with carving the decoration of the almost completely new second archivolt, which was positioned a few weeks ago.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 6 2003
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The same team also produced a plaster cast of the archivolt of the first and second niche of the fountain's back wall, of which many parts are missing, to serve as a model for carving these elements.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Restoration & Conservation Report 5 2003
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After the placement of the new blocks, the arch is now ready for the last missing archivolt -- the keystone.
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The completion of the almost completely newly carved second archivolt from the left by Eva Leplat and Mehmet Özkavak.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 5 2003
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Our stone carvers Sinan Ilhan and Eva Leplat, assisted by Mehmet Özkavak, continued to carve missing elements of some of the Corinthian capitals and bead-and-reel decorations of the completely new second archivolt.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects Report 4 2003
yarb commented on the word archivolt
The perceptual possession of a unit of space is practically instantaneous when, for example, an expert driver's eye takes in a highway symbol - the black mouth and neat archivolt within a red triangle...
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor
June 5, 2008