romanesque

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“I really, really felt like this was it,” O’Hara said in an interview Tuesday in his first-floor office at City Hall, a Romanesque building known for its looming clock tower.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Kathy: I don’t care if it’s French, Dutch or Romanesque, I’m going to wear a bathing suit top.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

He was able to combine the rich ornamental vocabularies of various Classical, Romanesque, Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance styles into successful residential architecture that was grand in scale yet comfortable to live in.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

Those accomplishments had resulted in a seven-foot-tall statue of Schuyler being placed, nearly a century ago, on a pedestal in front of Albany’s grandly Romanesque City Hall, just across from the State Capitol.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023

Most of the buildings are red brick too; some have arched doorways, a Romanesque effect, from the nineteenth century.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood