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   Flying Buttress
   In architecture a flying buttress (also known as an arch-buttress) is a contrivance for taking up the thrust of a roof or vault which can not be supported by ordinary buttresses. It consists of a straight bar of masonry, usually sloping, carried on an arch, and a solid pier or buttress sufficient to...
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   Flying Buttress
   A garbage page of random junk. Maybe just blank it?Gwimpey 02:07, 3 May 2004 (UTC) ...
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   Flying buttress
   a specific type of buttress usually found on a religious building such as a cathedral.
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   flying buttress
   A free-standing buttress attached to the main vessel (nave, choir, or transept wall) by an arch or half-arch which transmits the thrust of the vault to the buttress attached to the outer wall of the aisle.
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   flying buttress
   [n] - a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch
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   flying buttress
   In Gothic architecture, a stone buttress in the form of an arched prop, supported at one end by the main wall of a building and at the other end by a pier, in order to resist a lateral thrust. A...
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   Flying Buttress
   A buttress which stands away from its building, and is attached to it by a ‘bridge`.
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   flying buttress
   arc-boutant noun a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch
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   flying buttress
   (from the article `Gothic art`) ...outward thrust of the ribbed ceiling vaults was carried across the outside walls of the nave, first to an attached outer buttress and then to a ... At the technical level Gothic architecture is characterized by the ribbed vault (a vault in which stone ribs carry th...
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    Flying Buttress
    A masonry support branching from the sturdy piers and vertical Standing buttresses. Their role is to transfer the great weight of the vaulted roofs off to this more solid support of the firmly set abutments. In French
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    flying buttress
    flying buttress: see buttress.
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    flying buttress
    See buttress.
    Found op http://www.ackland.org/tours/classes/glossary.html
    
    
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    Flying buttress
    a specific type of buttress usually found on a religious building such as a cathedral.
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture
    
    

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