pediment
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Is pediment a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (architecture) A classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns; fronton.Examples: "Passing the Congregation Shearith Israel on Central Park West (a white whale of a building with a triangular pediment supported by four count ’em four massive Corinthian columns), Professor Solanka scurrying through the downpour remembered the newly bat-mitzvahed thirteen-year-old girl he’d glimpsed through the side door, […]"
2. (geology) A very gently sloping (0.5°-7°) inclined bedrock surface.
Definition source: Wiktionary