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Definition of Arched

1. Adjective. Constructed with or in the form of an arch or arches. "An arched passageway"

Definition of Arched

1. a. Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

Definition of Arched

1. Adjective. Curved. ¹

2. Verb. (past of arch) (to curve) ¹

3. Verb. To have made curved. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arched

1. arch [v] - See also: arch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arched

Literary usage of Arched

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"At this arched window, throwing it open, but keeping himself in com- parative obscurity by means of the curtain, Clifford had an opportunity of witnessing ..."

2. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"The motive frequently appears in the second half of the XI and in the XII century.7 One of the most curious developments of the arched corbel- table was the ..."

3. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"These internal arched fibres are easily distinguishable by their small diameter from the large internal arched fibres which belong to the tract of the ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Above olive-brown, spotless; beneath white; olive- streaked ; belly white; lower tail-coverts white-tipt; hind claw long, arched ; length five inches. ..."

5. Bird Homes: The Nests, Eggs and Breeding Habits of the Land Birds Breeding by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1900)
"Eggs white; nest rarely and but roughly arched. See Page 35, Chapter I. 5O1. ... It is formed of grass and is frequently arched or partly so. ..."

6. Transactions by England Society of Engineers (London, Society of Engineers (London, England), Royal Historical Society (London), Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett (1867)
"ON arched ROOFS. BY CARL VON WESSELY. arched roofs are the production of the conjoint requirements of beauty and strength. So long as a roof is destined to ..."

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