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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 115 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TRABEATED , the architectural

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TERM

term given to those styles in which the

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ARCHITRAVE (from Lat. arcus, an arch, and trabs, trabem, a beam)

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BEAM
BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)

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LAT

Lat . Crabs) is employed instead of the

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arch, in the latter

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case the term " arcuated " being used . The

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PRINCIPAL

principal trabeated styles are the

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EGYPTIAN

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Greek, Lycian, nearly all the

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INDIAN

Indian styles, the

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CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

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JAPANESE

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AMERICAN

American styles, in all cases owing their origin to the

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TIMBER

timber construction, for which

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REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason the term

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POST

post-and-

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LINTEL (0. Fr. lintel, mod. linteau, from Late Lat. limitellum, limes, boundary, confused in sense with limen, threshold; the Latin name is supercilium, Ital. soprasogli, and Ger. Stutz)

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ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture is sometimes applied to it .

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