tympanum

Without the malleus and incus, sound waves would not be collected by the tympanum.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

A fast-rising artist who had been commissioned at a young age to design the tympanum over the central doors of the National Cathedral, Hart was working in a long, historical tradition of realistic representation.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2017

“Mahna Mahna” is as catchy as a song can be, like a fishing hook stuck in your tympanum.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2011

Over the entrance door into one of the earlier funerary chambers, a Greco-Roman triangular tympanum illustrates the gradual penetration of Hellenistic motifs.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2010

A few beggars lay under the great tympanum of Notre Dame’s doorway.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

A more detailed account of these tympana will be found in a following chapter.

From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Heath, Sidney

These are the tympana or ear-drums of the ear of that leg.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James

The tympana above this is pierced with eighteen windows filled with geometric tracery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

But to be done with it—two shouts that slew an eagle a mile up the sky, must have cracked all the tympana of the two million shouters.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

His figures fill The tympana o'er Santa Croce's gate; In the museum too, his Cain, that stands A left-handed discobolos....

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect not just the ear of some baffled layman but the tympanums of that knowing politician, the Head of the Democratic Party.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Boer Senators leaned forward, hand behind ear in order that not one word of the Prince's English should escape their Dutch-hardened tympanums.

From Time Magazine Archive

The masons put together the pieces of the rose window and installed the tympanums and voussoirs over the doors.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

Men might be seen mounting from step to step in the hollow wheels of the tympanums.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

But if the statues are interesting, the sculpture of the archivolts and the personages and scenes carved on the fields of the tympanums far surpass them.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.