Definition for PED'I-MENT

PED'I-MENT, n. [from L. pes, the foot.]

In architecture, an ornament that crowns the ordonnances, finishes the fronts of buildings and serves as a decoration over gates, windows and niches. It is of two forms, triangular and circular. A pediment is properly the representation of the roof. Encyc.

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