romanesque
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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
Apart from his poetic works, he wrote The History of the Girondins, which is a romanesque history of almost the whole of the Revolution, some novels, some autobiographic episodes, and a few discourses on literature.
From Initiation into Literature by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
Notwithstanding the magnificence of its cathedral, we venture to say that there is nothing in all Rouen to compare with the norman romanesque of the latter towns.
From Normandy Picturesque by Henry Blackburn
