pediment

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɛd.ɪ.mənt/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.
    — Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, […]
  2. A very gently sloping (0.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface.

词形变化

pediments plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gooseneck pediment pedimental pedimented
相关词
frontispiece tympanum

词源

From the earlier form peremint, perhaps a dialectal alteration of pyramid, under the influence of -ment.
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