pediment

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Her casket will be carried up the steps in front of the court, passing under the iconic words engraved on the pediment, “Equal Justice Under Law,” and placed in the court’s Great Hall.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

Unfortunately for the cause of intelligent discourse, his statement was erected upon a pediment of lies.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

On the pediment, they are on the same line as the date.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2021

I was even more rankled that none of the replacement options were as deep as our original pediment.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2021

Ahead of them a sloping lawn rose directly out of the floodwater and led smoothly up to the white facade of the house, the columns and the pediment.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman