A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 83
e ; this form is veryuiuisual, probably because nearly the same curvecan be reached by combinations of circular curveswith three or five centres, and because such acurve is much easier to construct and to trans-fer. (2) A three-centred or five-centred arch,of which the Basket Hanille arch is the… … Discharging Arch ivER A Flat Aech, formingLintel. nearly parallel to the intrados, therein differingfrom an arch whose voussoirs are cut with hori-zontal returns so as to pass into the masonryof the wall. The extradosed arch has tliena well-marked archivolt. Flat Arch. One having a hoiizontal…
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