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UK
/kjuːpˈəʊlɐ/
]
[ US /kəˈpoʊɫə/ ]
[ US /kəˈpoʊɫə/ ]
NOUN
- a roof in the form of a dome
- a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting
How To Use cupola In A Sentence
- On the other side, three stores, then the courthouse -- a cupolaed white frame building set back from the road with a patchy lawn in front -- then four more storefronts, two of them brick. Cold Mountain
- The keyhole of the door close by she calls her turret window; through this she can see half Rome, as far as the mighty cupola of St. Peter's. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales
- He was still on alert in his commander's cupola, in his vehicle.
- While Hannah was using a blanket to swat out flames on the ladder below the top of the cupola — waving away helpful servitors and even a voynix that had come in close to protect the humans from harm — Harman and two others had finished poking inside the fiery furnace and had just opened a “taphole,” allowing what looked to be yellow lava to flow down wooden troughs to the beach. Ilium
- He would say, ' No, enlarge that tower, and let's put two cupolas on top '.
- Breaking the skyline beyond was the distinctive cupola on the tower of St Mary's church. THE BOOK LADY
- The large building is built in the traditional style with barrel vaulted ceilings and cupolas.
- Based on thermodynamics principle, the feasibility for melting iron borings in cupola was ana lysed.
- Other improvements that will be started in the coming year include repairing and restoring the mill's headrace, which guides and controls water flow from the river to the mill, masonry repairs to the foundation walls, repainting the cupolas of the Slater and Wilkinson mills and replacing the Slater Mill's 1929 fire suppression system. Projo.com Projo Local News
- The cupola was broken; but it is to be remarked that a movable and well-covered one would not have been placed under so disadvantageous circumstances as the one under consideration, upon which it was easy to superpose the blows. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886