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bowstring truss

American  

noun

  1. a structural truss consisting of a curved top chord meeting a bottom chord at each end.


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The new theater, which sits inside a 7,500-square-foot bowstring truss structure, represents the final piece of the puzzle of DuVernay’s Array campus, which opened early last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2019

Beneath the restored wood bowstring truss ceiling and exposed brick walls, everything under the Made Solid brand is “100% by hand, right here,” co-founder Peter Maxwell says of his studio and shop.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2017

They landed simultaneously on the top of the arch of the bowstring truss.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

It was a bowstring truss seventy feet high.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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