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arc-boutant

[ ark-boo-tahn ]

noun

French.
plural arcs-boutants

arc-boutant

/ ܳɑ̃ /

noun

  1. another name for flying buttress
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of arc-boutant1

Literally, “thrusting arch”
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Example Sentences

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It may be remarked that these northern attributes of lofty vaulting and the high development of the arc-boutant were not general throughout the south, or indeed in any other region than the north of France.

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