ogival
- a word derived from ogive.
Example Sentences
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Down the hall is his most recent addition to the space: a new door with a Gothic ogival arch and a small barred window that opens into the bedroom.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019
In North Africa it produced radiant motifs: the green garden, the white breastlike curves of marabout domes, the angled cuts of shadow in street and alley, the blue haze of light behind ogival arches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Knowing tourists come from all over California to see its huge ogival fresco of Prometheus by the one armed Mexican Muralist Jaan Clemente Orozco.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their joined profiles make an ogival arch, with one split eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
Santo Domingo de la Calzada.—The primitive ground-plan of the cathedral has been preserved, a nave and two aisles showing Romanesque strength in the lower and ogival lightness in the upper tiers.
From The Cathedrals of Northern Spain by Rudy, Charles
