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mollusque commented on the word counterarching
To resist the perpendicular pressure of this heavy mass, the architect adopted the counterarching expedient: of which the earliest examples will be found over the windows on the west side of Magdalene college, under the library...
--James Ingram, 1837, Memorials of Oxford
January 13, 2008