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

Example Sentences

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

I passed under its flat arch, as if into the midst of the waiting events of my story.

From The Portent & Other Stories by MacDonald, George

It became too huge and high to see at all, and then there was a low flat arch of stone close above his face, and he was inside.

From Black Amazon of Mars by Brackett, Leigh Douglass

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 Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

Such a cast-iron damper also forms a support for the flat arch of brick over the opening if bricks are used.

From Making a Fireplace by Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman)