Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See flying buttress.
Wiktionary
- n. architecture Alternative for a flying buttress
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Arch.) A buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch; same as
flying buttress .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French (Wiktionary)
- French : arc, arch (from Old French; see arc) + boutant, present participle of bouter, to thrust (from Old French; see butt1). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It has closeles and a arc-boutant plastic tape (coasts free!).”
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