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Definition of Round arch
1. Noun. An arch formed in a continuous curve; characteristic of Roman architecture.
Specialized synonyms: Bell Arch, Horseshoe Arch, Moorish Arch, Roman Arch, Semicircular Arch, Basket-handle Arch, Three-centered Arch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Round Arch
Literary usage of Round arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Gothic art adopted this framework, merely changing the round arch into a pointed
one, and later replacing the rectangular intervals of the intrados by ..."
2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"Or rather, as the architecture of the round arch had gradually shaken itself free
from the trammels of the elder system of the entablature, ..."
3. Studies in the History and Art of the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire by Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, Agnes Margaret Ramsay (1906)
"placed under a round arch supported on two short columns. The difference from
the ordinary dress of women * proves that the goddess is here meant. ..."
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