Ogee arch: An arch consisting of two opposed ogee curves meeting in a point at the top. Introduced c. 1300, it was popular throughout the late Middle Ages and in England especially in the early fourteenth century.
ogee arch - S-shaped double curve in Gothic architecture.
round arch - (False arch) equal to half a circle. A semicircular arch without voissoirs.
OGEE ARCH: an arch with a compound curve, partly concave and partly convex; looks like the keel of a boat. (Also known as a KEEL arch.) (IMAGE) ...
OGEE ARCH A center pointed arch with reverse curve sides, often seen on Exotic Moorish Revival style buildings .
ORIEL WINDOW A projecting bay window supported by brackets or a triangual support piece.
Ogee Arch
A pointed arch formed by two reversed curves, slightly S-shaped in profile. Used extensively in Gothic style architecture for windows, doors and applied decorative motifs.
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ogee arch: two ogees meeting at a point.
onion-shaped dome: used in Russian and Islamic architecture and derived from the domes of Byzantine basilicas.
Ogee Arches:
An arch formed by the meeting of two double curves forming a long S shape; a definitive design of the Gothic era.
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Ogee arch
A principal feature of Decorated Gothic architecture, ogee arches are sinuous and curved, and look as if they are made up of two S-shaped sections joining together.
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Ogee Arch
The ogee curve is created by the union of a concave and a convex arch. The result looks a bit like an S. This is used at the top of arches as well as for the profile of moldings. The ogee arch is Gothic in design.
ogee arch or ogive: An arch with a pointed apex, formed by the intersection of two S curves usually confined to decoration and not used in arcade arches. Ogee arches were used only in the late Gothic period Other types of arches: depressed, horseshoe ...
The ogee arch was the natural result of the development of tracery in the commencement of the 14th century, and in Gloucester (about 1310) the foliations were run one into the other without the enclosing circles.
An arch formed by two S-shaped curves meeting at a point, in other words a pointed arch with double curved sides, upper arcs convex, lower concave, is called an OGEE ARCH .
CURVILINEAR TRACERY: a form of window tracery, characteristic of the Decorated style, in which weaving lines of masonry form daggers and mouchettes above ogee arches.
A double curve bending first one way and then the other. An ‘ogee arch’ has two curves meeting at an apex.
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5. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Architect a curved ornamental moulding, esp one having the shape of an ogee arch
[via French and Italian from Vulgar Latin accollāre (unattested) to hug; related to Latin collum neck] ...
Reticulated
A type of window tracery which has a net-like pattern formed by a series of inter-linked ogee arches. It was common in the early 14th-century Decorated style (from Latin opus reticulatum: net or lace-work).
Slight eave overhang, boxed with modillions, dentils, or other classical moldings
Gabled or wall dormers
Round towers
Metal roof cresting
Baskethandle (elliptical) or ogee arched doors, windows, porches ...
Ogee arches were used only in the late Gothic period. Orant (orans) figure: A standing figure with both arms raised. This was a gesture of prayer in the Early Christian period. Oriel: A projection from the upper story of a building.
 See also: Ogee, Gothic, Arch, Architecture, Ornament
  
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