pendentive.

A curved triangular surface that helps support a dome above a square space.

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Words that belong together

• curved pendentive
• dome pendentives
• painted pendentives

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Painted figures occupied the pendentives beneath the dome.

The pendentive curved upward from the corner of the square bay.

She followed the dome’s weight visually down through its four pendentives.

Usage notes

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