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Gothic arch   /gˈɑθɪk ɑrtʃ/   Listen
Gothic arch

noun
1.
A pointed arch; usually has a joint (instead of a keystone) at the apex.






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"Gothic arch" Quotes from Famous Books



... India-rubber is modern, but the yellow animal substance which is elastic like that, and serves the same purpose in the animal economy which that serves in our mechanical contrivances, is as old as the mammalia. The dome, the round and the Gothic arch, the groined roof, the flying buttress, are all familiar to those who have studied the bony frame of man. All forms of the lever and all the principal kinds of hinges are to be met with in our own frames. The valvular arrangements ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... niches withdrawn from men in silent grass-grown corners, where a twelfth-century corbel holds a pot of roses, or a Gothic arch yawns beneath a wool warehouse, or a waterspout with a grinning faun's head laughs in the grim humor of the Moyen-age above the bent head ...
— Bebee • Ouida



Words linked to "Gothic arch" :   pointed arch, lancet arch, lancet



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