trabeation.

Construction in which horizontal beams or lintels rest on upright supports.

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• classical trabeation

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The temple’s trabeation contrasted with the later arches.

The plan relied on trabeation for its long portico.

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Primary category: architecture. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.