Crossword-Solution: PEDIMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pediment | n. | Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PEDIMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Classic gable | 1 answer |
| DESERT surface cut across bedrock or alluvium | 1 answer |
| Gable over portico | 1 answer |
| Triangular gable on a building, as the Parthenon. | 1 answer |
| Triangular gable. | 1 answer |
| triangular part over a door etc | 1 answer |
| Gable | 4 answers |
| Architectural feature. | 19 answers |
| ARCHITECTURAL decoration | 29 answers |
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Sentences with PEDIMENT (5)
Passing through it, she walked down a brick path to a queer little brick temple with white wooden columns supporting a pediment on which was inscribed in tarnished gold letters: “The Honorius Hatchard Memorial Library, 1832.” Honorius Hatchard had been old Miss Hatchard's great-uncle; though she would undoubtedly have reversed the phrase, and put forward, as her only claim to distinction, the fact that she was his great-niece.
These pilasters appeared to support a kind of classic pediment, which was decorated in the middle by a large triple window in a boldly carved frame, and in each of its smaller angles by a glazed circular aperture.
You didn’t think of giving them to him?” Glennard had lounged across the room and stood staring up at a bronze Bacchus who drooped his garlanded head above the pediment of an Italian cabinet.
Here, a window is partly blocked up by the pediment of a tomb; there, where the street falls far below the level of the graves, a chimney has been trained up the back of a monument, and a red pot looks vulgarly over from behind.
You have seen these blocks, dear to the nursery: this one a pillar, that a pediment, a third a window or a vase.
Quotes with PEDIMENT (3)
On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.
History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of fortunes and cultures. It was the litany of loss, attended by the inevitable sympathy for the vanquished side. The past was always the underdog, and we sensed it was only right to be on its side against the bully future. We were left with the impression that our own grip was loosening on some essential pediment as one empire after another was swallowed up,…
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder — immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse — humanity.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–1974).