blind arcade.

A row of arches applied to a solid wall rather than opening into a passage.

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• decorative blind arcade

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A blind arcade decorated the chapel wall.

Each arch in the blind arcade held a shallow recess.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular blind arcade; plural blind arcades. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.