lancet arch

noun Architecture.

an arch having a head that is acutely pointed.

Origin of lancet arch

First recorded in 1815–25

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Although the pointed arches used are sometimes equilateral and sometimes drop-arches, the lancet-arch is the most characteristic.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 9
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The term is applied, in architecture, to a form of the pointed arch, and to a window of which the head is a lancet-arch.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 2
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British Dictionary definitions for lancet arch

lancet arch

noun

a narrow acutely pointed arch having two centres of equal radiiSometimes shortened to: lancet Also called: acute arch, Gothic arch, pointed arch, ogive

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