Definitions for Romanesque

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Romanesque Ro·man·esque

Spelling: [roh-muh-nesk]

IPA: /ˌroʊ məˈnɛsk/

Romanesque is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 608 anagrams from letters in Romanesque (aeemnoqrsu).

Definitions for Romanesque

noun

1. the Romanesque style of art or architecture.

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to the style of architecture prevailing in western or southern Europe from the 9th through the 12th centuries, characterized by heavy masonry construction with narrow openings, features such as the round arch, the groin vault, and the barrel vault, and the introduction or development of the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, and central and western towers for churches.
2. pertaining to or designating the styles of sculpture, painting, or ornamentation of the corresponding period.
3. (lowercase) of or relating to fanciful or extravagant literature, as romance or fable; fanciful.

Origin of Romanesque

1705-15; Roman + -esque; compare French romanesque romantic

Examples for Romanesque

This chapel was one of the most sunken and dark of the old Romanesque apse.

Romanesque is plainly noticeable in mixture with the early Gothic.

It is no longer a Romanesque church; nor is it a Gothic church.

All the thought of that day is written, in fact, in this sombre, Romanesque style.

It had nothing to do with the Goths, but was a local European outgrowth of the Romanesque.

The style of the edifice is Romanesque with a genuine Lombardic tower.

One would say that it were conscious of the vicinity of the heavy Romanesque pillars.

The interesting Romanesque Church of Kallundborg was also visited.

Yet it is in this province that the Romanesque is best studied.

The cathedral, an early Romanesque structure, bears the date of 1052.