broken arch

Noun

Meaning

an arch with a gap at the apex; the gap is usually filled with some decoration

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Examples

She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. Thomas Babington Macaulay

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