pedimented

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   architecture: furnished, crowned, or decorated with a pediment, or shaped like one

   Three tiers of pedimented windows rose between the stone pilasters.

Formed from pediment + -ed. An architectural pediment is the low triangular gable above a classical portico or a similar decorative form above a door or window. Pediment is a seventeenth-century alteration of the earlier periment, probably influenced by pyramid.

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