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CURVILINEAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 664 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CURVILINEAR , in See also:

architecture, that which is formed by curved or flowing lines; the See also:roofs over the domes and vaults of the See also:Byzantine churches were generally curvilinear. The See also:term is also given to the flowing See also:tracery of the Decorated and the Flamboyant styles.

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