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Architrave
- the lowest part of the entablature. The term is also
commonly used to describe a moulded surround to any opening, but is usually applied to a door
or window opening. A shouldered (sometimes referred to as eared or (Scotland) lugged) architrave has the surround turning outwards, then upwards
before returning horizontally along the top of the opening it is framing.
See Classical Architecture.