basket-handle arch.

A low, rounded arch formed from several joined arcs with different centers.

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• basket-handle arch doorway

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A basket-handle arch spanned the wide entrance.

The mason traced the basket-handle arch on the plan.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular basket-handle arch; plural basket-handle arches. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.