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Flat arch   /flæt ɑrtʃ/   Listen
Flat arch

noun
1.
An arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados.  Synonym: straight arch.






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"Flat arch" Quotes from Famous Books



... friends and relatives, finally returned to Parma. Arriving there, he was straightway commissioned to paint in fresco a vault of some size in the Church of S. Maria della Steccata; but since in front of that vault there was a flat arch which followed the curve of the vaulting, making a sort of facade, he set to work first on the arch, as being the easier, and painted therein six very beautiful figures, two in colour and four in ...
— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto • Giorgio Vasari



Words linked to "Flat arch" :   straight arch, arch



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