basket-handle arch

[bas-kit han-dl, bah-skit-]

bas·ket-han·dle arch

[bas-kit han-dl, bah-skit-]
noun Architecture.
an arch having a symmetrical form drawn from an odd number of radii in excess of one, which increase in length from the springing toward the center.
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Basket-handle arch is always a great word to know.
So is frieze. Does it mean:
a longitudinal division of an interior area, as in a church, separated from the main area by an arcade or the like
the part of a classical entablature between the architrave and the cornice, usually decorated with sculpture in low relief
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basket-handle arch

noun
a round arch whose inner curve is drawn with circles having three centers [syn: three-centered arch
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