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CURVILINEAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 664 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CURVILINEAR  , in

architecture, that which is formed by curved or flowing lines; the
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roofs over the domes and vaults of the
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Byzantine churches were generally curvilinear . The
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term is also given to the flowing
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tracery of the Decorated and the Flamboyant styles .

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