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Tudor arch
noun
- a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Tudor arch1
Example Sentences
So are three lovely windows, framed by Tudor arches, that overlook 42nd Street through sinuous tracery.
The entrance to both these vaults is by a depressed Tudor arch, with plain spandrils, six feet high, the thickness of the walls about four feet.
In early buildings of this period the drop arch is very prevalent, but as the period advanced a form known as the Tudor arch began to be used.
There have been some who trace out a Tudor arch and one or two Gothic windows as having been filled up with more modern mason-work: but that may be fancy.
The strength and solidity of the walls, which had not been, as elsewhere, masked with brickwork; the low, Tudor arches; the mullioned bars of the windows—all attested its age.
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