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

His frontal bone came down low and straight so that under the flat arch of the brow his small, very bright agate-blue eyes looked out as from beneath half-closed shutters.

From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

He twisted the loose ends back and tacked the flat arch thus made to the top and inner posts of the trellis.

From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Eaton, Walter Prichard