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Definition of Platband
1. n. A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border.
Definition of Platband
1. Noun. A border of flowers in a garden, especially along a wall; a strip of turf forming a border. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) Any border. ¹
3. Noun. (architecture) A flat fascia on an architrave, or forming a border round a window, or a horizontal band along a wall. ¹
4. Noun. (architecture) A fillet on a column, between the flutings. ¹
5. Noun. (rare) A flat lintel over a door or window. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Platband
1. a lintel [n -S] - See also: lintel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platband
Literary usage of Platband
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible Lands, in 1850 by Edouard de Warren (1854)
"It is set all around, as in a frame, with a wide platband, which also forms an
archivolt above. Thirty yards still further on, and ten yards higher up than ..."
2. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1900)
"The short sides are, however, adorned with sculptures; both are symmetrically
divided by a vertical platband, on each side of which there is, on the ' north ..."
3. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1834)
"The projection of the plinth is one- third of the height of the whole base ; the
torus and the platband project equal to their respective heights. ..."
4. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"platband, in gardening, a border or bed of flowers, along a wall, ... platband of
a door or window, is ufed for the lintel, where that ie made ..."
5. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Based on Sir William by Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"platband.—A flat moulding, narrow but deep, such :i^ the list between Outings.
Plinth.—A square tablet supporting the base of a column. ..."
6. Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús by Ram Raz, Henry Harkness (1834)
"The projection of the plinth is one- third of the height of the whole base; the
torus and the platband project equal to their respective ..."
7. A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor: Embracing Descriptions, Discussions, and by Alexander Lyman Holley (1865)
"In consequence, we have conceived the plan of composing the wrought-iron envelope:
FIG. 426. " 1st. Of a longitudinal armature extending from the platband ..."
8. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"909. ; but the more common practice is to use a platband only (as m fig. 911.
... When arches occur in basements, the platband, which serves for the impost, ..."
9. Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible Lands, in 1850 by Edouard de Warren (1854)
"It is set all around, as in a frame, with a wide platband, which also forms an
archivolt above. Thirty yards still further on, and ten yards higher up than ..."
10. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1900)
"The short sides are, however, adorned with sculptures; both are symmetrically
divided by a vertical platband, on each side of which there is, on the ' north ..."
11. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1834)
"The projection of the plinth is one- third of the height of the whole base ; the
torus and the platband project equal to their respective heights. ..."
12. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"platband, in gardening, a border or bed of flowers, along a wall, ... platband of
a door or window, is ufed for the lintel, where that ie made ..."
13. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Based on Sir William by Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"platband.—A flat moulding, narrow but deep, such :i^ the list between Outings.
Plinth.—A square tablet supporting the base of a column. ..."
14. Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús by Ram Raz, Henry Harkness (1834)
"The projection of the plinth is one- third of the height of the whole base; the
torus and the platband project equal to their respective ..."
15. A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor: Embracing Descriptions, Discussions, and by Alexander Lyman Holley (1865)
"In consequence, we have conceived the plan of composing the wrought-iron envelope:
FIG. 426. " 1st. Of a longitudinal armature extending from the platband ..."
16. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"909. ; but the more common practice is to use a platband only (as m fig. 911.
... When arches occur in basements, the platband, which serves for the impost, ..."
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