Meanings of ogive in English

Suddenly they stopped at an ogive fitted with a heavy oak door.

He caught up with her and followed her into an ogive marked with the bust of Tanara Mae.

The ogive is, perhaps, very ancient; and authors dispute as to the anteriority of the Romanesque to the Gothic.

The Oriental ogive appears.

The glass of the rosace above the ogive glowed like fiery coal in the deep carvings of a wheel of stone.

By a dark footpath, soft and damp, under the ogive of the branches, we follow this crystal-paved cloister of green shadow.

The architects heap arcade on arcade, ogive on ogive, pyramid on pyramid, and give to all geometrical symmetry and artistic grace.

Here he sat like a king beneath the ogive of the branches; a shower of rain had adorned them with pale-blue pearls.

It was an immense vaulted apartment, wainscoted in black oak, and lighted by three small ogive windows, looking out upon the terrace.

Beyond the second enclosure, in a ploughed field, one can recognise the ruins of a chapel by the broken shafts of an ogive portal.

Their great straight walls, a little severe perhaps, and scarcely pierced by their tiny ogive windows, rise above the height of the neighbouring houses.

The question on statistics, which is always popular, was different in that students were asked to draw a histogram rather than the usual ogive gram.

Five bell-towers, built half into the wall and separated by tall ogive-windows now partly blocked up, repeated, with variations, the façade I have just described.

Obscene, the Obscurity in style October Ogive, the Olives Ovid

The casements of this hall, in the form of ogives, are ornamented with stained glass of the first epoch of the invention of that art.

Suddenly they stopped at an ogive fitted with a heavy oak door.