tholus

American  

[thoh-luhs] / ˈθoʊ ləs /

noun

plural

tholi

1. tholos.

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Etymology

Origin of tholus

1635–45; < Latin < Greek thólos

Example Sentences

Between the exterior row of columns of the tholus, which are of stone, and the interior row, which are of pine, there is a narrow space, five feet in width.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax

Etruscos celebrare viros, testudinis arcus, Urna, tholus, statu�, templa, domusque petunt.

From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo by De Vere, Gaston du C.

The light in the tholus over the great dome of the Capitol shone like a beacon far above the rows of colored lanterns which were hung in festoons from the trees among the sidewalks.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

Between these basins a path leads to the tholus, or rotunda, which is surrounded with two rows of columns, like that in the house of Catulus, except that I have substituted columns for walls.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax

The reparation here mentioned refers in all probability to the roof and piers of the transepts and eastern part of nave, damaged by the fall of the tholus.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy