domical

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"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 narthex is in five bays, the two terminal bays having cross-groined vaults, the three central, vaults of a domical character with blunt rounded groins at the springing.

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

A careful survey of the building shows clearly that the domical character of the chapel is not original, and that the structure when first erected was a simple hall covered with a wooden roof.

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

St. Paul’s stands second only to St. Peter’s as a great domical cathedral of Renaissance architecture.

From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

It should therefore rather be called a domical vault.

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