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Definition of Flying buttress
1. Noun. A buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch.
Definition of Flying buttress
1. Noun. (architecture) a buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports, and is connected to it by an arch (flyer). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flying Buttress
Literary usage of Flying buttress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1865)
"403) and elsewhere, where a series of small traceried arches stand on the lower
flying buttress, and support the upper, which is straight-lined. ..."
2. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"Definition—Need, Value, and Origin of the flying buttress—Internal and ...
A FLYING buttress, as usually constructed, is a half arch springing from the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"RS flying buttress. A structure of masonry by means of which the thrust of a ...
The usual form of the flying flying buttress: HARTLEPOOL CHURCH, DURHAM, c. ..."
4. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1909)
"They are set back from "the outside face of the aisle wall, start from above the
haunch of the flying buttress, and are strengthened by gables in front ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture by John Henry Parker (1877)
"There is a very fine example of a compound flying buttress at Westminster Abbey,
which supports the vaults of the choir, the tri- forium, and the aisles, ..."
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