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Definition of Horseshoe arch
1. Noun. A round arch that widens before rounding off.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horseshoe Arch
Literary usage of Horseshoe arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Architecture: From the Earliest Times; Its Present Condition in by Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1848)
"... a horseshoe arch. Horseshoe. Pointed or Gothic Arches, are mostly formed by
the intersection of two arcs of a circle ; among these are the Lancet Arch. ..."
2. How to Know Period Styles in Furniture: A Brief History of Furniture from by William Lowing Kimerly (1913)
"Their work was confined chiefly to mosques and buildings, and not much furniture
was produced. horseshoe arch. Minaret of a Mosque. ..."
3. History of the Moorish Empire in Europe by Samuel Parsons Scott (1904)
"... Antiquity—Their Early Architecture—Materials— Massive Character of the First
Edifices of the Moslems— The horseshoe arch—Its Phallic Derivation—Progress ..."
4. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"Palate with horseshoe arch. classed among the well-marked stigmata of degeneration.
I have found but two or three cleft-palates among the 450 idiots and ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"horseshoe arch.—They are not uncommon in Norman ribbed vaults. ... In Eastern
work the horseshoe arch is frequently not Tound- headed, but acutely pointed. ..."
6. History of Mediaeval Art by Franz von Reber (1887)
"In the chapter treating of the art of the Sassanians the development of the
horseshoe arch was described, and it was shown that this form was not determined ..."
7. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"horseshoe arch. One in which the curvee arc carried below the springing line ...
Moorish Arch. Same as horseshoe arch. Oblique Arch. Same as Skew Arch. The ..."
8. Architecture East and West: A Collection of Essays Written at Various Times by Richard Phené Spiers (1905)
"Mr. Carpenter suggests that the re- entering curve of the horseshoe arch is a
recognition of the Byzantine abacus, which, as we know, is probably derived ..."
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