lintel
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The dark green in the decorative friezes, as well as the lintels and pilasters of the Palladian window, is newly accurate, too.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
More than 40 marks were painted inside the passage and tomb, including fingerprints, handprints, diamond shapes and circles, and large symbols on the internal lintels.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2025
In 2021, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum returned two hand-carved religious artifacts — sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries — to the Thai government.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023
The most famous mention of the society, aside from stone inscriptions found in museums and private collections, appeared in lintels over doorways at Bonampak, in which Sak Tz’i’ captives are depicted defeated and humiliated.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022
She could see no children playing or running after their mothers, only cats: black, white, ginger, tortoiseshell, tabby cats, lying in the warm sun on top of walls, in doorways, on lintels.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Vocabulary lists containing lintel
Built To Last: Architectural Parlance
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