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Definition of Ogee arch
1. Noun. A pointed arch having an S-shape on both sides.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ogee Arch
Literary usage of Ogee arch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"ogee arch.—As the upper curves of this arch are reversed, it cannot bear a ...
In France, the ogee arch does not seem to have come into general use till ..."
2. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"1240-1290, a circle was set on two lancets, a reversed ogee arch is almost
irresistibly ... The ogee arch, like the pointed arch, may vary greatly in form ..."
3. How to Know Period Styles in Furniture: A Brief History of Furniture from by William Lowing Kimerly (1913)
"Their use of the horseshoe and ogee arch was another characteristic feature of
the period. Their work was confined chiefly to mosques and buildings, ..."
4. History of Architecture: From the Earliest Times; Its Present Condition in by Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1848)
"The Tudor Arch. Used during the reigns of Henry VIII., James I., and Elizabeth.
The ogee arch. Used frequently in the Decorated and Perpendicular Gothic. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The ogee arch was the natural result of the development of tracery in the
commencement of the i4th century, and in Gloucester (about 1310) the foliations ..."
6. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Donald Moore, Thomas Rowland Powel (1867)
"To the right, a small pointed doorway leads into the ground-floor of the eastern
tower ; to the left, a small doorway, with an ogee arch, opens into the ..."
7. Medieval Architecture: Its Origins and Development, with Lists of Monuments by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1909)
"The ogee arch, which may be taken as one of the distinctive peculiarities ...
Yet, notwithstanding such aberrations, the ogee arch, whose lines are usually ..."
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