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Gothic architecture flourished during the mid and late medieval period.Gothic architecture = a style of architecture characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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On the afternoon of May 15, when the blizzard finally abated, I returned to the southeast face and climbed to the top of a slender ridge that abuts the upper peak like a flying buttress on a Gothic cathedral.† (source)Gothic cathedral = a cathedral characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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The photo showed the main entrance of a Gothic cathedral—the traditional, recessed archway, narrowing through multiple, ribbed layers to a small doorway.† (source)
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He followed the gargoyle up the thousand and one steps carved into the interior of the wall that finally led onto the roof of the Gothic cathedral.† (source)
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She had been imagining the scene of a crime, a Gothic cathedral, whose flamboyant vaulting would be flooded with brazen light of scarlet and indigo from a stained-glass backdrop of lurid suffering.† (source)
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"What Chartres was to the Gothic cathedral," wrote Thomas Talmadge, a Chicago architect and critic, "the Montauk Block was to the high commercial building."† (source)
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A gothic cathedral of pork.† (source)gothic cathedral = a cathedral characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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The buildings themselves were breathtakingly beautiful—towering masterpieces of neo-Gothic architecture.† (source)Gothic architecture = a style of architecture characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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Even from across the street she could see it exactly as it was, a towering Gothic cathedral whose spires seemed to pierce the dark blue sky like knives.† (source)Gothic cathedral = a cathedral characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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He has fallen in love with the Gothic architecture of the campus, always astonished by the physical beauty that surrounds him, that roots him to his environs in a way he had never felt growing up on Pemberton Road.† (source)Gothic architecture = a style of architecture characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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On the other side of the street is a gigantic Gothic cathedral dating from the fourteenth century.† (source)Gothic cathedral = a cathedral characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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He liked knowing that Gothic architecture, with its upward trend, was peculiarly appropriate to universities, and the idea became personal to him.† (source)Gothic architecture = a style of architecture characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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Before we left, Deo wanted to visit some of his favorite extracurricular spots: the benches overlooking Harlem on Morningside Drive and the Riverside Church and finally St. John the Divine, the immense unfinished Gothic cathedral in Morningside Heights, just a short walk from the campus.† (source)Gothic cathedral = a cathedral characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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Thereafter, on dear, tempestuous February nights, the wind—breathing into my heart, which it shook no less violently than the chimney of my bedroom, the project of a visit to Balbec—blended in me the desire for gothic architecture with that for a storm upon the sea.† (source)gothic architecture = a style of architecture characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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But the print, Feininger's "Church of the Minorites," had an appeal to him that was irrelevant to the art in that its subject, a kind of Gothic cathedral, created from semiabstract lines and planes and colors and shades, seemed to reflect his mind's vision of the Church of Reason and that was why he'd put it here.† (source)Gothic cathedral = a cathedral characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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He did not at that time see that mediaevalism was as dead as a fern-leaf in a lump of coal; that other developments were shaping in the world around him, in which Gothic architecture and its associations had no place.† (source)Gothic architecture = a style of architecture characterized by vaulting and pointed arches
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