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Definition of Bell arch
1. Noun. A round arch resting on corbels.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell Arch
Literary usage of Bell arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"bell arch. An arch resting upon two corbels with curved face or edge, so that
the resulting compound curve has a distant resemblance to the outlines of a ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Aged two years; duration twenty-one day*: recovery. Case 37 (JK Bell, Arch, of
Pediat, 1901, xviii. 315)—Aged two years; another case in house ; fever, ..."
3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1848)
"Each bell-arch has a separate gable. The west window is a good one of two lights,
well cusped, with a sexfoil above. This bell-gable, which we do not think ..."
4. The Craftsman by Gustav Stickley (1904)
"There is still a fourth cornice above this upper bell arch, and all the three
bell spaces are likewise divided by simple cornices. ..."
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