NOUN
- a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch
How To Use flying buttress In A Sentence
- Gothic architecture has a particular look: the pointed or ogival arch, ribbed vaults, rose windows, towers, and tremendous height in the nave, supported by flying buttresses.
- The castle rose, towers and flying buttresses, one of the aunt's bobby pins with a bit of yarn for a pennant. THE SHIPPING NEWS
- The new building resembled a mediaeval cathedral with its pointed arches, ribbed vaulting and flying buttresses.
- Gothic architecture has a particular look: the pointed or ogival arch, ribbed vaults, rose windows, towers, and tremendous height in the nave, supported by flying buttresses.
- All the reinforced fencing, railroad ties, and flying buttresses can keep the uphill from sliding downhill for only so long.
- The cathedral is known for its influence on High Gothic, its flying buttresses, ribbed vaults, and multiple towers; for glass and carvings that pray and teach down the centuries.
- Moreover, in the building of the great Gothic cathedrals many new devices were introduced, including flying buttresses.
- She dropped suddenly from the vast, smooth-swelling miles of wheatland into the tortured marvels of the Bad Lands, and the road twisted in the shadow of flying buttresses and the terraced tombs of maharajas. Free Air
- However, adverbs and adjectives are the foundations - and flying buttresses - of pornography and erotica.
- These are supported by small round-arched and fluted flying buttresses topped by figurines of scroll-bearing prophets.