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romanesque

[roh-muh-nesk] / ˌroʊ məˈnɛsk /


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Beneath the ornately painted ceiling and romanesque arches that spring from huge marble columns, bodies fill every space on the rows of wooden benches.

From The Guardian Nov. 21, 2017

The majority of American architects, then still trained in the Beaux-Arts manner, favoured a traditionalist approach, their designs ranging from teetering romanesque campaniles to gothic piles.

From The Guardian Sep. 12, 2017

They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Above the shallow porch is a large round window with renaissance tracery, but retaining its original framing of a round arch resting on tall shafts with romanesque capitals.

From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson

I enclose a picture of one of the streets at Colorado Springs for Madame Flournoy, and another one of a "cowboy" for that one of the demoiselles who is most romanesque.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James




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