romanesque architecture

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romanesque architecture - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Romanesque architecture
      n 1: a style of architecture developed in Italy and western
           Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000
           AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the
           substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and
           arcades [syn: Romanesque, Romanesque architecture]