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Definition of Extradoses
1. extrados [n] - See also: extrados
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extradoses
Literary usage of Extradoses
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)
"A The quasi-triangular space included between the extradoses of two adjoining
arches and a line approximately connecting their crowns,—or the space equal to ..."
2. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"1185 have projecting ribs on the extradoses. There is a similar disposition in
the vaults of S. Ambrogio of Milan, but in neither case is it clear whether ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"The triangular spaces at the corners were then filled up to a level with the
extradoses of the arches, and on the ring thus formed the dome was built. ..."
4. Stereotomy by Arthur Willard French, Howard Chapin Ives (1902)
"... of the two arches intersect in the lines BB, and CO,, and the extradoses, if
cut to a curve, would intersect in the lines AD, and A,D, not drawn. ..."
5. Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Typographical by Robert Stuart (1854)
"From this section it will be seen, that the extradoses of equilibration, of
circular, elliptical, and cycloidal arches, are the most convenient forms for ..."
6. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"The flat wall space comprised between the extradoses of two adjoining half- arches
and a horizontal line or molding touching, or nearly touching, ..."
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