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spandrel

span·drel

also span·dril (spăn′drəl)

1. The roughly triangular space between the left or right exterior curve of an arch and the rectangular framework surrounding it.

2. The space between two arches and a horizontal molding or cornice above them.

[Middle English spaundrell, probably from spandre, space between supporting timbers, from Anglo-Norman spaundre, from spandre, to spread out, from Latin expandere; see expand.]

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spandril - an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them

spandrel

surface - the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"

architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"

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