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Definition of Squinches
1. squinch [v] - See also: squinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squinches
Literary usage of Squinches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"1) there are similar fully developed squinches. Those of the baptistery of
Galliano, dating from c. ... The squinches were given an extra order. ..."
2. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1850)
"... with small squinches, and no great projection to the crocketed spire-lights ;
I hardly know a prettier example, and the composition of the tower stands ..."
3. Medieval Architecture: Its Origins and Development, with Lists of Monuments by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1908)
"Probably the first advance in the construction of squinches - was to smooth off
the edges of the stone blocks forming the.' corbels so that the whole ..."
4. Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico by Sidney David Markman (1984)
"In lower Andalusia the use of squinches in presbyteries of rectilinear plan, ...
The church of Santa Clara in Seville also has squinches to form a polygonal ..."
5. George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers by George Edmund Street, Georgiana Goddard King (1916)
"In the cathedral at Worms there are squinches formed by semi-domes. ...
At Notre-Dame-du-Port, Clermont, the dome is circular, but the squinches below are ..."
6. George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers by George Edmund Street, Georgiana Goddard King (1916)
"In the cathedral at Worms there are squinches formed by semi-domes. ...
At Notre-Dame-du-Port, Clermont, the dome is circular, but the squinches below are ..."
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