adj. Architecture Having horizontal beams or lintels rather than arches. [From Latin trabs, trab-, beam (influenced by trabeātus, clothed in the trabea, a ritual garment); see treb- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] tra′be·ation n. |
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