Etymologies
- Roman + -esque (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Most often when we see a ciborium magnum today, it comes in the context of a classical or romanesque idiom.”
Possibilities for the Ciborium Magnum in Neo-Gothic Churches
“While I admit to preferring a church by Pugin, or other cases of "revival" architecture which borrow from the baroque, gothic or romanesque as it was traditionally expressed, there are various elements in each of these churches which, I believe, are quite successful, appealing and well suited to the ceremonial life of the Church.”
A Consideration of Two Very Different Directions in "Contemporary" Church Architecture
“They went to Bayeux, not to see the tapestry, but to pay homage to oriental figures in the romanesque part of Bayeux cathedral.”
““Le sentiment ‘minoritaire’ et identitaire dans la création romanesque de Myriam Anissimov.””
“Paris: 1973; Histoire et représentation: Le génocide dans la fiction romanesque.”
“Entitled Histoire et représentation: Le génocide dans la fiction romanesque (1956), it questions the portrayal of the Shoah (with an all-too-often attendant kitschiness) by such world-renowned writers as William Styron and Heinrich Böll.”
““Altérité juive, altérite romanesque: Rachel (E. Foa) et Lavinia (G. Sand).””
“I like good architecture in general from classical, pre-romanesque, romanesque to this.”
“In the popular imagination, such arches point upward to heaven, but in architectural terms their benefit was to carry weight downward -- and not outward, as do the round arches of a romanesque building.”
The Wall Street Journal: How Chartres Reached for the Divine
“Marvel at La Seo, the soaring cathedral of San Salvador, built between the 12th and 17th centuries and gracefully incorporating romanesque, Gothic, Mudéjar and baroque architecture.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘romanesque’.
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Lillyjames's Words
uncategorized words that I enjoy
replete, unabashed, dauntless, ubiquitous, fanged, blush, flush, murmur, mercurial, dishevelled, decrepit, raven and 146 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Castles and Keeps
Shamelessly ripped off from this site and others (to be named hereinafter). (Fair warning: for my own edification, I may add definitions/comments from the site, but you might want to just go there ...
abutment, adulterine, allure, angle-spur, apse, arbalest, arbalestier, arbalist, arcade, arch, armoury, arrow slit and 410 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Ends With "Que"
plaque, appliqué, bisque, communiqué, grotesque, marque, monocoque, odalisque, baroque, brusque, dantesque, critique and 46 more...
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