domical

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"Out there on the desert�just the dunes, me and my feet," mused Telly Savalas, domical Big Daddy of TV's Kojak series.

From Time Magazine Archive

The figures bend forward awkwardly beneath the curve of the vault, which becomes domical, with angels and cherubs upon it.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

With the fall of Rome and the rise of Constantinople these forms underwent in the East another transformation, called the Byzantine, in the development of Christian domical church architecture.

From A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)

The latter was a basilica; 515 while the church alluded to in the biography of S. Theodore was a domical building.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

All the vaults are domical, and those of the nave spring from corbels carved in the style of Venetian fifteenth-century work.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)