Roman arch

American  

noun

1. a semicircular arch.

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Roman arch British  

noun

1. another name for Norman arch

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Roman arch

Last year, the I.D.A. made headlines, and the cover of Newsweek, after it erected, in Trafalgar Square, a marble replica of a triumphal Roman arch in Palmyra, Syria—another icon destroyed by ISIS.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2016

You cannot evoke the past by simply taking historical symbols and using them as applique," he maintains."What does it mean to put a Roman arch over someone's house in Connecticut?

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the entrance gate was a Roman arch bearing the inscription “Pestalozzian Institute” in large gilt letters.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various

In sum, the Church preferred to stand firm on the Roman arch, and the architects seem now inclined to think it was right; that scholastic science and the pointed arch proved to be failures.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Over this Roman arch, which crosses the Meles river, all the caravans pass on their entrance to the town.

From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Thackeray, William Makepeace