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Horseshoe arch   /hˈɔrsʃˌu ɑrtʃ/   Listen
Horseshoe arch

noun
1.
A round arch that widens before rounding off.  Synonym: Moorish arch.






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"Horseshoe arch" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been nothing but a monotone of greyness, suddenly fire broke and radiance and storm-clouds in commotion. Then, as if built up by music, a rainbow rose and grew above Leucadia, planting one foot on Actium and the other on Ithaca, and spanning with a horseshoe arch that touched the zenith, the long line of roseate cliffs. The clouds upon which this bow was woven were steel-blue beneath and crimson above; and the bow itself was bathed in fire—its violets and greens and yellows visibly ignited by the liquid ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

... mistress entered a more capacious and ornate apartment. Its ceiling, which described the horseshoe arch of the Saracens, was encrusted with that honeycomb work which is peculiar to them, and which, in the present instance, was of rose colour and silver. Mirrors were inserted in the cedar panels of the walls; a divan of rose-coloured silk surrounded the chamber, and on the thick soft carpet ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli



Words linked to "Horseshoe arch" :   Moorish arch, round arch



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