spandrels's Usage Examples:

called spandrels.

Wooden ornamental spandrels are known as gingerbread spandrels.

Gould and Richard Lewontin proposed biological "spandrels", features created as a byproduct of the adaptation of nearby structures.

typically hovering high in a composition, and often filling spaces in spandrels or other gaps in architecture.

carved, but as a rule the lower edges were cusped and had tracery in the spandrels besides being otherwise elaborated.

The gabled porch has a square headed doorway with shields in spandrels.

details such as false windows on the top story, and highly decorated spandrels.

is called an adaptation; other characteristics may be non-functional spandrels, though these in turn may later be co-opted by evolution to serve new.

The glass stripes are created by windows and opaque spandrels, forming continuous areas that are washed by machines sliding down the.

It features distinctive spandrels with basketweave pattern brickwork.

It has six cast iron ribs, each cast in 23-foot (7m) lengths, with spandrels filled with X-shaped bracing.

arch with medallions of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist in the spandrels and fine fluted columns.

Imperial Roman times, sculptures of Pheme offering laurel wreaths fill the spandrels of the central arch.

The facing was built of pudding stone, the spandrels filled with Roman concrete.

into the vault's curve, producing a row of lunettes alternating with spandrels.

However this was given a touch of elegance by its arched spandrels, which usually appear above load-bearing arches in deck arch bridges.

Completed in 1903, this bridge features a barrel arch with filled spandrels.

Synonyms:

surface; spandril;

Antonyms:

inside; natural object; uncover;