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tympanum

noun as in eardrum

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

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Built in the Biedermeier period of the 19th century, his summer residence was a wedding gift from his mother, which he then expanded and remodeled with neoclassical columns and tympana.

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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.

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

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Macedonia’s main government complex, recently recast as a copy-and-paste White House, complete with square portico and tympanum, begged for recognition.

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