voussoir

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | 267 words | Copyright

voussoir. Cuneus, or block (normally of stone, brick, or terracotta), shaped on two opposite long sides to converging planes in what is normally the shape of a wedge, forming part of the structure of an arch or vault, its sides coinciding with the radii of the arch.

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