📚 noun • entry_id 45281
voussoir
/vuˈswɑːr/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dovela
One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
It is the voussoir depth in a real arch which enables the arch to carry wider ranges of loading; a large number of different idealized centre-line arches can be contained within a…
Other areas have mortar joints missing, including between the voussoir blocks forming the edge of the arches on either side of the pier.
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