architrave
or kuh trayv
- n the molding around a door or window
- n the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns
- Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah .
- Its transparent grid defers to the pillar-and-architrave opacity of the ancient stone building without mimicking it.