MEANING
The sharp line where two surfaces meet, especially in stonework.
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- stone arris
- crisp arris
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A chip broke the stone’s arris.
Light picked out the crisp arris of the pillar.
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- arris
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular arris; plural arrises. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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