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Roman arch   /rˈoʊmən ɑrtʃ/   Listen
Roman arch

noun
1.
A round arch drawn from a single center.  Synonym: semicircular arch.





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"Roman arch" Quotes from Famous Books



... little creek, or rather canal, which then ran inland, beside the black and rotting walls of the fort. The two Earl-born leapt ashore, passed under a Roman arch, entered a court the interior of which was rudely filled up by early Saxon habitations of rough timber work, already, since the time of Canute, falling into decay, (as all things did which came under the care of Edward,) and mounting a stair that ran along the outside of the ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
 
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... semicircular arches. The Gothic, or Pointed, or Christian architecture, as it has been variously called, was the creation of the Middle Ages, and arose nearly simultaneously in Europe after the first Crusade, so that it would seem to be of Eastern origin. But it was a graft on the old Roman arch,—in the shape of an ellipse rather than a circle. Aside from this invention, to which we are indebted for the most beautiful ecclesiastical structures ever erected, we owe every thing in architecture to the Greeks and Romans. We have found out no new principles which were not equally ...
— The Old Roman World • John Lord
 
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Words linked to "Roman arch" :   semicircular arch, round arch



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