flat arch

American  

noun

Architecture.

1. an arch having a more or less flat intrados and extrados with voussoirs radiating from a center below the arch.

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Etymology

Origin of flat arch

First recorded in 1705–15

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flat arch

An old man with a lined rectangular face and a scar across the flat arch of his nose, he was the leader of the larboard watch and Reed’s right-hand man.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Over the windows the bricks, of special shapes, were arranged as in a flat arch, with a keystone that jutted slightly.

From Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett

These lines must be represented by a flat arch of linoxin with a downward pointing magnet therefrom, to represent adhesion to the surface.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

Each of the main ribs of the flat arch consists of three pieces, and at each junction they are secured by a grated plate, which connects all the parallel ribs together into one frame.

From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

Spanning forest and field with a low flat arch of even gray, hangs a sky as cold as the landscape it domes and whose mountain borders lie hidden in its hazy foundations.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson