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Gothic arch

noun

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

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"Gothic arch" Quotes from Famous Books

... arches, but not room enough for three, so it was decided to dock the middle arch a little. It is a she-arch—that is to say, it has no keystone, but is formed simply by propping two segments of a circle one against the other. It certainly is not a Gothic arch; it is a Lombard arch, modified in an unusual manner, owing to its having been built under ...

— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler

... window. That window in its day must have been one of the finest abbey windows in England. It still stood erect, covered with ivy, while all around it walls, towers, and roof had crumbled into dust. Some of the slender stone framework still dropped gracefully from the Gothic arch, and at the apex of all there still adhered a foot or two of the sturdy masonry of the ...

— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed

... example or examples, suppose I found, crowning the severe, almost rigid column of the soundhole of Del Jesu, the mobile bend of Stradivari? or, at the turn of the companion lines of Stradivari, the Gothic arch of Del Jesu? with the base of each of a like nature—do you think I should pass such without a severe growl of condemnation? And yet I have seen such; and I scarcely expect to go on to the end without seeing ...

— Violin Making - 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. • Walter H. Mayson

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