NOUN
- an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them
How To Use spandril In A Sentence
- The long spandrils of the groining are painted with conventional scrollwork of leaves and flowers in a style contemporaneous with the architecture. Ely Cathedral
- In the spandril above the outer archway is carved, 'amid elegant scroll-work and foliage, an arm, vested in an ermine maunch, the hand grasping a golden fleur-de-lys' -- the old coat-armour of the Mohuns; and on the other spandril 'three lions passant in pale,' the bearing of the Carews. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
