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

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 old Roman arch disappears, and the pointed arch is substituted,—graceful and elevated.

From Beacon Lights of History by Lord, John

The style of architecture was that known as “Norman”—with thick massive walls, having the circular Roman arch over the doors and windows.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne