rear archn.
/ˈrɪər ɑːtʃ/, U.S. /ˈrɪr ˌɑrtʃ/ Architecture.
Esp. in Gothic architecture: the inner arch of a window or doorway, typically differing in size or form from the external arch. Cf. rear vault n.
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bowOE
craba1387
cove1511
triumphal arch (arc)a1566
straight arch1663
pointed arch1688
rough arch1693
jack-arch1700
oxi1700
raking arch1711
flat arch1715
scheme-arch1725
counter-arch1726
ox-eye arch1736
surbased dome1763
ogee1800
rising arch1809
sub-arch1811
deaf arch1815
four-centred arch1815
mixed arch1815
Tudor arch1815
camber1823
lancet arch1823
invert1827
platband1828
pier arch1835
ogive1841
scoinson arch1842
segment1845
skew arch1845
drop-arch1848
equilateral arch1848
lancet1848
rear arch1848
straining-arch1848
tierceron1851
shouldered arch1853
archlet1862
segment-arch1887
1848 G. A. Poole Hist. Eccl. Archit. xii. 229 There is no outer pointed arch, but the head or panel of the corbel itself is thrown into the form of a trefoil... It is the case with many windows, as..the rear arch of a lancet in Hythe Church, Kent.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 280 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’.
1927 Burlington Mag. Aug. 79/1 The four flowered capitals belong to the columns of the rere-arch of the window and the wall arches on either side.
1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) 297 The rere-arch had dogtooth, and there is a reset arch with more dogtooth further E.
1997 T. McNeill Castles in Ireland vii. 120 The details of the openings..are of fine masonry, especially the round-headed rear arch of the opening in the north-east wall.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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