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arched

[ ahrcht ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

arched

/ ɑːtʃt /

Origin of arched¹

First recorded in 1575–85; arch ¹ + -ed ³

Or gazing towards the Bible stories, saints and martyrs depicted in the arched stained glass windows.

The tour starts with a difficult choice: which of the three arched doorways will you choose?

When they returned, many came to this small building with arched windows only a few blocks from the grimy Caspian beach.

For other photographers, models arched their backs and posed.

The gracefully arched ceiling of the Oval Office can make the biggest of men look small.

The Arab pricked his ears, swished his long and arched tail viciously, and showed the whites of his eyes.

He was looking at me with eyebrows arched, curiously, and there was a faint suggestion of hostility in the set of his mouth.

A peculiar form of grave common in these chambers, as well as in the galleries, is that known as the arcosolium, or arched tomb.

Sometimes the recess is rectangular instead of arched, and is then called by De Rossi sepolcro a mensa, or table tomb.

The high-arched temple, in the centre of which stands the sarcophagus, is inlaid with mosaic work of rare stones.

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