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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Entablature \En*tab"la*ture\ (?; 135), n. [OF. entablature: cf
It intavolatura fr LL intabulare to construct a basis; L.
in + tabulatum board work flooring, fr tabula. See
{Table}.] (Arch.)
The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns.
See Illust. of {Column}, {Cornice}.
Note: It is commonly divided into architrave, the part
immediately above the column; frieze, the central
space; and cornice, the upper projecting moldings.
--Parker.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
entablature
n : the part of a classical temple above the columns between a
capital and the roof
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