lancet arch

noun

, Architecture.

1. an arch having a head that is acutely pointed.

lancet arch

noun

1. a narrow acutely pointed arch having two centres of equal radii Sometimes shortened tolancet Also calledacute archGothic archpointed archogive

Word History and Origins

Origin of lancet arch¹

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

The term is applied, in architecture, to a form of the pointed arch, and to a window of which the head is a lancet-arch.

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Although the pointed arches used are sometimes equilateral and sometimes drop-arches, the lancet-arch is the most characteristic.

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The severe lancet arch is characteristic of the first phase of the Gothic, which gradually grew out of the severer Norman.

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The lancet arch is seldom seen; the equilateral arch is generally, though not always, used.

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This interlacing is supposed by many authorities to have been the origin of the "pointed lancet arch."

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