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voussoir

/vuˈswɑːr/

voussoir noun: one of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.

voussoir: one of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault
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Noun

voussoir (plural voussoirs)

  1. One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
    • It is the voussoir depth in a real arch which enables the arch to carry wider ranges of loading; a large number of different idealized centre-line arches can be contained within a given practical profile. ...[T]his must be so, or no mediaeval bridge would have survived its decentering.1977, Jaques Heyman, Equilibrium of Shell Structures, Clarendon Press, Oxford, page 2
    • Other areas have mortar joints missing, including between the voussoir blocks forming the edge of the arches on either side of the pier.2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival: Ribblehead Viaduct repairs”, in RAIL, page 26

voussoir meaning in Tamil

voussoir in Tamil

விதான ஆப்புக்கல்

Forms of voussoir

pluralvoussoirs

Origin of voussoir

Unadapted borrowing from French voussoir, from Old French vosoir, from Vulgar Latin *volsorium, from *volsus, from Latin volvō (“to roll”).

Words formed from voussoir

Questions about voussoir

What does voussoir mean?
Voussoir means one of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
What is voussoir in Tamil?
Voussoir in Tamil is விதான ஆப்புக்கல். See Voussoir meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is voussoir?
Voussoir is a noun.
How do you pronounce voussoir?
Voussoir is pronounced /vuˈswɑːr/.
What is the plural of voussoir?
The plural of voussoir is voussoirs.

Words near voussoir in the dictionary

  1. voulgier
  2. voulgiers
  3. Vouli
  4. Voulon
  5. Voulême
  6. voussoir
  7. voussoired
  8. voussoiring
  9. voussoirs
  10. vousvoie
  11. vousvoied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: voussoir (page history and authors); voussoir (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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