a. Arch. [irreg. (for *trabate), f. L. trab-s, trab-em beam + -ATE2, on analogy of TRABEATION, q.v. [L. trabeātus meant ‘clad in the trabea’)] = next.
1890. C. H. Moore, Gothic Archit., i. 6, note. It is not until we scrutinise the joints of masonry that the trabeate principle of its construction is perceived.
1905. Athenæum, April, 441/2. The ordinary house [in Syrian architecture, 85 B.C. to 609 A.D.] was a purely trabeate building…. The construction was in cut stone blocks laid without mortar; but the arch … was gradually evolved.
