[a. F. entablement, f. entabler, f. en- (see EN-1) + table TABLE.] a. = ENTABLATURE. b. The horizontal platform or graduated series of platforms supporting a statue and placed above the dado and the base.
1654. Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Archit. (1733), 44 (R.). They differ nothing either in Height, Substance, or Entablement from the Feminine Ionic, and Masculine Doric.
1708. [E. Hatton], New View Lond., II. 492/1. Columns and Entablement of the Corinthian Order.
1802. Month. Mag., XIII. 1 Feb., 18/2. It [dado] therefore means (1) the cubic part of the pedestal of a column, or of a statue, included between the base and the entablement.
1865. Reader, 9 Dec., 662/2. The figure … standing upon a series of entablements of regular gradation.
