Tudor arch

American  

noun

1. a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.

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Etymology

Origin of Tudor arch

First recorded in 1805–15

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Tudor arch

The porch also has a fine Tudor arch, which might form the entrance to some college quadrangle, and there are rooms above and gables on either hand.

From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

The entrance to both these vaults is by a depressed Tudor arch, with plain spandrils, six feet high, the thickness of the walls about four feet.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

The most common doorway is the Tudor arch having a square head over it.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

There have been some who trace out a Tudor arch and one or two Gothic windows as having been filled up with more modern mason-work: but that may be fancy.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

Driving through an ancient gate-way of dun-coloured stone, spanned by the high-shouldered Tudor arch, they found themselves in a spacious court, closed by a facade on each of its three sides.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas