| 释义 |
rear-arch Arch.
Also rere-.
[f. rear- + arch.]
The inner arch of a window- or door-opening, when differing in size or form from the external arch. (Cf. rear-vault.) Also attrib.
1849Freeman Archit. 343 By these two means the splay and the distinct rear-arch are abolished. 1860G. E. Street in Archæol. Cant. III. 116 From these a richly-moulded rear-arch springs. 1878Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 280 Taking all styles together, the rear, or rere arch, or in earlier works the wider internal splay, is greatly more frequent, probably because less costly than the other form, the ‘through arch’. Ibid. 282 The two systems may be distinguished as rere-arch windows and through arch windows. |