semi-domen.
Half a dome, usually one formed by vertical section.
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1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xl. 94 The inside of St. Sophia, the cupola, the two larger, and the six smaller, semi-domes [etc.].
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 74/1 A large semicircular..apsis, covered by a semi-dome.
1874 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 161 The..figure of Christ in the semi-dome of the apse.
Derivatives
ˈsemi-domed adj.
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1864 A. B. Jameson & Lady Eastlake Hist. Our Lord I. 19 The semi-domed tribune or apse.
1888 Good Words 29 238 The..semi-domed nest [of the willow wren].
semi-ˈdomical adj. having the form of a semi-dome.
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a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 250 Other semi-domical projections branching out from the walls which support the great semi-domes.
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