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1. In Classical architecture, a triangular gable usually having a horizontal cornice, with raked cornices on each side, surmounting or crowning a portico or another major division of a façade, end wall, or colonnade.

2. A gable above or over a door, window, or hood; usually has a horizontal cornice, crowned with curved sides, or may also be crowned with another configuration (such as broken sides) or its base may be broken in the middle. For definitions and illustrations of specific types, See angular pediment, broken pediment, broken-scroll pediment, center-gabled pediment, curved pediment, open pediment, pointed pediment, round pediment, scroll pediment, segmental pediment, split pediment, swan’s-neck pediment, triangular pediment.

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Yo misma defendi en un articulo dedicado a las que fueran primeras y unicas pelotaris profesionales, las raquetistas, que "la vision de la mujer pelotari ocupando el espacio central de la cultura vasca, aquel que corresponde al bertsolari, al politico o al plaza-gizon, el espacio de la plaza, el fronton, es incompatible con la imagen que el conjunto social se ha hecho de si mismo" (Gonzalez Abrisketa, 1999: 31).

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I'd never munched a bunch of Negrette, the black grape of Fronton, the local wine of Toulouse.

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Florida was the home of America's first fronton, built in Hialeah in 1924, but it wasn't until the '50s that the sport really exploded.

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