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UK
/ˈɑːtʃweɪ/
]
[ US /ˈɑɹtʃˌweɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈɑɹtʃˌweɪ/ ]
NOUN
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a passageway under a curved masonry construction
they built a triumphal arch to memorialize their victory
How To Use archway In A Sentence
- Three tall memorial archways inscribed with Chinese characters stand outside the temple.
- A familiar sight, almost opposite Bedford Hospital, is the Britannia Works archway, the area behind which has been wasteland for at least ten years.
- I had planned to stand in a convenient archway, watching the rain and working on the book in my head.
- Inside, the main living area is open plan, with the sitting room separated from the kitchen by an archway.
- This was a wide, cobbled square, with the old mounting-block at its centre, and on two sides the stable doors and the archways of the coach-house. Rose cottage
- An archway's most important stone is the keystone, the wedge-shaped piece of rock at its apex.
- To create a medieval feel, the towers will have arrow slits and cars will be able to drive under the archway beneath a raised portcullis.
- But through the wide streets and through the narrow ones, under the archways into the market gardens, across the bridge and into the square where the "glockenspiel" played its old tinkling tune, everywhere the Citadel looked down and always The Rat walked on in his dream. The Lost Prince
- The voices from the archways and beneath the flags tones cried out briefly, all at once, in agony.
- Structures have been strengthened, archways rebuilt, mosaic floors retiled and chapels repainted - lavender blue, daffodil yellow, sunset red.