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Roman arch

American  

noun

  1. a semicircular arch.


Roman arch British  

noun

  1. another name for Norman arch

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The construction of the arched roof is on the plan which engineers know as the cantilever, and not that of the Roman arch.

From The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin)

The Iliad, the Hamlet, the Doric column, the Roman arch, the Gothic minster, the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But it was a graft on the old Roman arch, in the curve of the ellipse rather than the circle.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements by Lord, John

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