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voussoir::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | building block |
Examples of voussoir
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Until the topmost voussoir, the keystone, is positioned the vault is not self-supporting.
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At the top of the single arch one can see the bearded head of Hercules, carved in high-relief, and his club on the adjoining voussoir.
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The elements of a portal can include the voussoir, tympanum, an ornamented mullion or trumeau between doors, and columns with carvings of saints in the westwork of a church.
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Elements of a portal can include the voussoir, tympanum, an ornamented mullion or trumeau between doors, and columns with carvings of saints in the westwork of a church.
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Porches, backdoors and even basements featured simple arches, rarely decorated with capitals or voussoir-style keystones, that show inspiration from both Colonial Mexico and Saxon-Roman styles.
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- Wedge-shaped stone building block used in constructing an arch or vault
- A voussoir is a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, (piatra) used in building an arch.
- One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks forming an arch or vault
- (Voussoirs) are truncated wedge pieces that make up an arch
- (Voussoirs) Trapezoidal shaped blocks of an arch, laid in compression, culminating in the keystone.
- One of the wedge-shaped masonry units which form the arch ring. An example is a brick in a jack arch.
- One of the stones in an arch between the impost and keystone.
- One of the truncated wedged stones composing a ring course in a stone arch. The facing or head voussoirs are placed at the ends of a ring course
- Wedge-shaped stone forming one of the units of an arch
