pediment

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He belongs in Athens, in the Acropolis Museum, anchoring the West Pediment of the Parthenon.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 22, 2019

The Pediment of the principal Front was to my mind well fancy'd.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

ART AND ARCHITECTURE.—Groups of Statuary for the Pediment of the House of Parliament in Vienna.—2 engravings.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

The part which projects from the middle95 is adorn'd with four Columns, and has a large Pediment at the end of it.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

On he goes, the little one, Bud of the universe, Pediment of life.

From Tortoises by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)