MEANING
The outer or upper curved surface of an arch or vault.
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Words that belong together
- arch extrados
- exposed extrados
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Broken roofing exposed the extrados.
The arch’s extrados followed the curve of the stonework.
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- extrados
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular extrados; plural extradoses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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