saucer dome

noun

, Architecture.

1. a dome having the form of a segment of a sphere, with the center well below the springing line; a shallow dome, as in Roman or Byzantine architecture.

Word History and Origins

Origin of saucer dome¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The building, completed in 1861 with many intervening revisions, drew significantly from Cole’s original plans, which included a long, horizontal, Doric colonnaded structure, flanked by recessed windows and capped by a unique drum wearing a low saucer dome.

From New York Times

The pendentives produce at the crown line of the arches a circular plan which is filled in by a saucer dome of the same radius as the pendentives, constructed of circular brick rings, the joints of 22 which radiate to the centre.

From Project Gutenberg

It is in five bays. 115The three central bays correspond to the 'inner narthex'; the middle bay is covered by a low saucer dome on pendentives, and is separated from the two side bays by columns set against flat pilasters.

From Project Gutenberg