ROUND ARCH • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Round arch

... understood, against what must seem a smaller race. The Gothic enthusiasm indeed was already born, and he shared it—felt intelligently the fascination of the Pointed Style, but only as a further transformation of old Roman structure; the round arch is for him still the great architectural form, la forme noble, because it was to be seen in the monuments of antiquity. Romanesque, Gothic, the manner of the Renaissance, of Lewis the Fourteenth:—they were all, as in a written record, in ...

— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater