Definition of Tudor arch

1. Noun. A low elliptical or pointed arch; usually drawn from four centers.

Exact synonyms: Four-centered Arch
Generic synonyms: Arch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tudor Arch

Tuberales
Tubercularia
Tuberculariaceae
Tubigrip
Tubinger perimeter
Tubman
Tubuai Islands
Tubulidentata
Tucana
Tucano
Tuchman
Tucker
Tucker-McLean forceps
Tucson
Tudor
Tudor arch (current term)
Tudor architecture
Tudor rose
Tudorbethan
Tudors
Tue
Tues
Tuesday
Tuesdays
Tugela
Tugela Falls
Tuileries
Tuileries Gardens
Tuileries Palace
Tukeit Hill frog

Literary usage of Tudor arch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Architecture: From the Earliest Times; Its Present Condition in by Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1848)
"The Tudor arch. Used during the reigns of Henry VIII., James I., and Elizabeth. The Ogee Arch. Used frequently in the Decorated and Perpendicular Gothic. ..."

2. A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages by John BRITTON (1838)
"121 ; Clarke's Account of East bury; Hunt's Exemplars of Tudor arch., pp. 27, 85; Pugin's Examples of Gothic Arch., vol. ii. p. xviii.; Carter's Anc. Arch., ..."

3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1888)
"With the last form of the Tudor arch we thus reach almost the point of departure in the construction of the arch, and complete our enumeration of its forms. ..."

4. Practical geometry for the architect, engineer, surveyor and mechanic by Edward Wyndham Tarn (1882)
"To apply the ellipse to form the outline of a Tudor arch. —Let AC, BC (fig. 103) be the semi-axes of an ellipse of considerable eccentricity, ..."

5. The Architecture of Country Houses: Including Designs for Cottages, Farm by Andrew Jackson Downing (1859)
"178. Interior in a simple Gothic Style.] mouldings. In Fig. 178, the bay-window opening at the end of the parlor, in this style, shows the Tudor arch, ..."

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