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Round arch   /raʊnd ɑrtʃ/   Listen
Round arch

noun
1.
An arch formed in a continuous curve; characteristic of Roman architecture.






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"Round arch" Quotes from Famous Books



... demonstrated, and, since him, Lecoy de la Marche. The study of archives has, on this point, completely overset the hobbies of architects, and demolished the twaddle of the Bonzes. Besides, there is abundant evidence of the employment of the pointed arch side by side with the round arch in a perfectly systematic design, in the construction of many Romanesque churches; in the Cathedrals of Avignon and Frejus, in Notre Dame at Aries, in Saint Front at Perigueux, at Saint Martin d'Ainay, at Lyon, in Saint Martin des Champs in Paris, in Saint ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... of Oriental peoples as mechanics and engineers is proved by their success as builders. The great pyramids exactly face the points of the compass. The principle of the round arch was known in Babylonia at a remote period The transportation of colossal stone monuments exhibits a knowledge of the lever, pulley, and inclined plane. [22] Babylonian inventions were the sundial and the water clock, the one to register the passage of the hours by day, ...
— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... her lamp. That meant, in this early summer season, that it was after seven o'clock. The little lady stood at the window in the upper hall. It was a broad window, with a low round arch, looking out on the garden and the sea beyond it. A bracket was fastened to the sill, and on this bracket stood the lamp that Miss Vesta was trimming. (It was against all fitness, as Miss Phoebe said, that a lamp should be trimmed at this hour. Every other lamp in the house was ...
— Geoffrey Strong • Laura E. Richards



Words linked to "Round arch" :   Roman arch, three-centered arch, semicircular arch, Moorish arch, horseshoe arch, basket-handle arch, bell arch, arch



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