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The horizontal slab of bragging a building puts above its columns.
means The horizontal upper section of a classical building that rests on the columns, made up of the architrave, frieze, and cornice stacked in that order.
from Borrowed from Italian 'intavolatura' (a paneling or tabling over), itself built on Latin 'tabula' — a board or table. So the word literally means something laid flat like a tabletop, which is exactly what it does: a flat horizontal 'table' of stone laid across the tops of the columns.
- three parts
- architrave, frieze, cornice stacked like a sandwich
- job
- transfers roof weight down into the columns
- greek orders
- doric, ionic, corinthian each style it differently
- where to spot
- banks and courthouses pretending to be temples