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/ˌɹoʊməˈnɛsk/
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NOUN
- a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades
How To Use Romanesque In A Sentence
- The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
- Fifteen miles north of Cambridge is the splendid Romanesque cathedral at Ely.
- With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
- Outside the ancient settlement, with its alleyways and arches reinforced with bamboo canes, is the early 13 th-century romanesque church of St Esteve.
- The legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Romanesque architecture.
- The legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Romanesque architecture.
- The Romanesque wing is all church decorations of various sorts, and all the rooms are designed like actual Romanesque churches, with columns or apses as appropriate to display the (usually fragmentary) decoration in the right place.
- It has also been suggested that the Romanesque crypt of the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Dromon may originally have been the mausoleum of Dardanus and his wife, Nevia Galla.
- Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
- Before the main rampart of the castle (from the Romanesque period) he placed a new bailey wall.
