epistyle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EP'ISTYLE, noun [Gr. a column.] In ancient architecture, a term used by the Greeks for what is now called the architrave, a massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately over the capital of a column or pillar.
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