shouldered arch

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   an arch consisting of a horizontal lintel supported at each end by corbels that project into the aperture

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Questions about shouldered arch

What does shouldered arch mean?

shouldered arch means "an arch consisting of a horizontal lintel supported at each end by corbels that project into the aperture".

Is shouldered arch a common word?

shouldered arch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.