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trabeated

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tra·be·at·ed  (trb-td) also tra·be·ate (-b-t, -t)
adj. Architecture
Having horizontal beams or lintels rather than arches.
[From Latin trabs, trab-, beam (influenced by trabetus, clothed in the trabea, a ritual garment); see treb- in Indo-European roots.]
trabe·ation n.
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Adj.1.trabeated - not arcuatetrabeated - not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches)
trabeate
architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"
straight - free from curves or angles; "a straight line"
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From less expressive trabeated steel structures, through barrel vault options, to the final parabolic arch, the engineers were able to halve the structural depth from 1,200mm to 600mm.
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Frommel's introductory chapter provides the essential chronological framework upon which to hang the successive articles; he emphasizes Peruzzi's lifelong preoccupation with gaining a better understanding of antiquity, culminating in the designs for splendid trabeated classical architecture such as the vestibule and court for the Palazzo Massimo in Rome.
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The architects of ancient Egypt and Greece knew about the arch, but their architecture was mostly trabeated, based on vertical columns spanned by horizontal, flat beams.
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