broken pediment

noun

, Architecture.

1. a pediment, as over a doorway or window, having its raking cornice interrupted at the crown or apex.

Example Sentences

Beyond the broken pediment front door and columned front porch lie nearly 5,000 square feet of living space.

From Los Angeles Times

The glass interrupted the tower’s pulled-taffy proportions, and spoiled what was even more distinctive than the broken pediment: the supersized Italianate portico, facing Madison Avenue, with its semicircular arches and big, quasi-ecclesiastical rose window.

From New York Times

Detractors talked about the broken pediment on the city skyline as if it were the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from “Ghostbusters,” another mid-80s confectionary menace.

From New York Times

With a Chippendale-inspired broken pediment at the top and a Renaissance-inspired colonnade at the bottom, the building was instantly identifiable, a shape as firmly fixed in the public imagination as the shapes of the Citicorp Center and the Chrysler Building.

From New York Times

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From New York Times