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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

Their joined profiles make an ogival arch, with one split eye.

From Time Magazine Archive

Modern in adaptation, it is however definitely Gothi-cized—a rugged, buttressed mass, patterned with ogival decoration, which will ultimately surge upward in an enormous square tower.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

We find, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, that the members of this class are beginning to build large, solid houses of stone, with ogival windows, and sometimes with lofty towers and crenelated battlements.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce