Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunets
Literary usage of Lunets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Euclid; with Select Theorems Out of Archimedes by Euclid (1727)
"If therefore you take away the two Spaces SA, AC, common on both Sides, there
will be left the two lunets SNA, AMC, bounded on both Sides, with circular ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1759)
"... lunets, horn-works, crown-works, and of every other part of a fortification,
that has hitherto been invented for the fe- curity of towns, ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"[Storey's Account of his Recovery from lUnets.] " BEFORE we got thither, my cpld
increased upon me to that degree, that my body was sore all over with an ..."
4. The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain by John Britton (1814)
"On the north side, looking to the country, are three lofty pointed windows,
diminishing outwardly to narrow lunets with trefoil heads. On the opposite side, ..."
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