voussoir
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Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French voussoir, from Old French vosoir, from Vulgar Latin *volsorium, from *volsus, from Latin volvō (“I roll”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]voussoir (plural voussoirs)
- (architecture) One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault. [from 1728]
- 1977, Jaques Heyman, Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 2:
- 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 given practical profile. ...[T]his must be so, or no mediaeval bridge would have survived its decentering.
- 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in Rail, page 26:
- Other areas have mortar joints missing, including between the voussoir blocks forming the edge of the arches on either side of the pier.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]wedge-shaped brick or stone
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Further reading
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French vosoir, from Vulgar Latin *volsorium, from *volsus, from Latin volvō (“to roll”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]voussoir m (plural voussoirs)
Further reading
[edit]- “voussoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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