romanesque
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Beneath the ornately painted ceiling and romanesque arches that spring from huge marble columns, bodies fill every space on the rows of wooden benches.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2017
The majority of American architects, then still trained in the Beaux-Arts manner, favoured a traditionalist approach, their designs ranging from teetering romanesque campaniles to gothic piles.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017
They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chevron is also an architectural term for an inflected ornament, called also “zig-zag,” found largely in romanesque architecture in France, England and Sicily.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
Except the outermost, which springs from square jambs, they all stand on the good romanesque capitals of six shafts, four round and two octagonal.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
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