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The exuberant phoenix motifs are enclosed within an ogival cartouche, so called because its outlines echo those of a pointed Gothic arch.

Bright and Shiny Things Lee Lawrence 2010

With three-tiered roofs and no trace of the later onion domes and ogival arches, traditional Malay mosques are well ventilated and perfectly suited to a tropical climate.

Wind of Change JDsg 2007

I ran the last few steps into the sunlight, which streamed in through two ogival windows.

Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

I ran the last few steps into the sunlight, which streamed in through two ogival windows.

Horrors Young Geoffrion 2009

Catherine's red palace, with a classical plan, white gothic detailing, large columns and ogival arcades, stretches 145 meters long.

Escape From Moscow: Joyce Man 2008

They emerged onto the main level beneath the ogival arcade, quite near the schola cantorum.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

A ceiling of blackened wooden beams gave way to an elegant, high ogival arcade encrusted with mosaic scenes from the Bible.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

The road away goes curving through the ogival opening, out into the night meadows.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

In some respects this enthusiasm for the Middle Ages and for Gothic architecture in particular was a matter of fashion: thus Parisian letters of 1834 record as superlatives current in the salons — alongside such curiosities as pyramidale, babylonien, and apocalyptique — the epithets gothique, ogival, and flamboyant.

CONCEPT OF GOTHIC WAYNE DYNES 1968

The ogival head is usually designed by using a radius of two calibers.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Various