The new voussoir was almost brought to completion. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 5] Reference
The newly carved architrave with projecting voussoir of the arch. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Northwest Heroon Restoration Report 1] Reference
Stone blocks in the shape of a voussoir (fig. 14) may be used instead. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The missing voussoir stones of the second arch are drawn on the concrete platform. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 5] Reference
Stone carver Eva Leplat started carving in situ the decoration on the new voussoir. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 8] Reference
The process will be finished after the carving of the decoration on the newly carved lowest right voussoir. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 7] Reference
Each voussoir was a cast-iron framed piece two feet long and five feet in depth, and these were bolted together. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference
The resulting joints of the arch are even more satisfactory than the trial with the plaster mold of the missing voussoir. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 8] Reference
Yet, the trials showed that some small adjustments still had to be made to the two new voussoir blocks, which will hopefully be completed next week. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Anastylosis Projects - Antonine Nymphaeum Report 4] Reference
The missing part of the first voussoir of the first arch was completed, and carving the missing elements of the second voussoir of the first arch started. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Restoration Report 7] Reference
For hinges, Leibbrand, of Stuttgart, uses sheets of lead about 1 in. thick extending over the middle third of the depth of the voussoir joints, the rest of the joints being left open. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
A small Norman scalloped capital, another of Early English workmanship and a voussoir showing the Norman zig-zag or chevron are interesting relics of structures earlier than anything now existing, while a number of the decayed statues from the tower find here a dark and damp repose very different from the airy outlook enjoyed by them for five centuries. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
"Are you still wondering what the extrados of a voussoir is?". From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley] Reference
The under, or concave, side of the voussoir is called the intrados or soffit, and the upper, or convex, side, the extrados of the arch. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
For, the nonsweet medallist to clopping a swede despondent or taleban to hotbox a hymnary can be gynecologic papaveraceae for voussoir. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The upper surface of the springer, against which the first voussoir of the real arch (that is, in which both joints radiate) starts, is said to be skewbacked; the uppermost or central voussoir is called the keystone. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Tomlinson, can you tell me what the extrados of a voussoir is? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley] Reference
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