span·drel also span·dril (sp n dr l)n. 1. The roughly triangular space between the left or right exterior curve of an arch and the rectangular framework surrounding it. 2. The space between two arches and a horizontal molding or cornice above them. [Middle English spaundrell, probably from spandre, space between supporting timbers, from Anglo-Norman spaundre, from spandre, to spread out, from Latin expandere; see expand.] |   |
spandrel, spandril [ˈspændrəl]
n Architect
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) an approximately triangular surface bounded by the outer curve of an arch and the adjacent wall
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) the surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal cornice above them
[C15 spaundrell, from Anglo-French spaundre spandrel, from Old French spandre to spread, expand]
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| Noun | 1. |  spandrel - an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above themsurface - the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface" architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
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