But if spraddle is a term which has never completely gone out of style, squinch is downright popular. |
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So far as is known, the squinch was first used in Persia and the pendentive in Syria. |
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Why did his shoulders squinch together and his floppy lips twist up at the corners? |
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This makes your mouth squinch up, it makes you purse your lips like Kim Kardashian posing for a selfie. |
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The arched squinch that is often used in Byzantine architecture originally seems to have been developed, almost simultaneously, by the Roman builders of the late imperial period and the Sāsānians in Persia. |
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In Italy the Romanesque squinch form is either the conical type as in the church of Sant'Ambrogio at Milan or a succession of arched rings as in the 13th-century central tower of the abbey church at Chiaravalle. |
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The stalactite work, which is so marked a feature of later Islāmic architecture, is, in essence, merely a decorative development of a combination of niche squinch forms. |
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