WordNet
n. an arch with a gap at the apex; the gap is usually filled with some decoration
Usage examples of "broken arch".
Muttering under her breath, she carefully found her way past the broken arch that lay across the balcony and back onto the walkway.
Sprawling on the edge of the broken arch, she saw the other's soul plummet away, white hair streaming, into the void.
Midsummer Day a matter of seconds after he had first left it, he reached scrabbling into the earth that had lain since the decay of Rome's Empire, some sixteen centuries before, in the hollow of the big rock of the broken arch.
A broken arch, roughly carved, or finely carved and roughly weathered, stood before them.
Her eye fell on Danifae, who knelt quietly in the shade of a broken arch, calmly watchÂ.
A broken arch led to a ramp and soon they were climbing to the very edge of the abyss.
No mortal would have sat here like this, in this shallow high broken arch of a church door, but I liked it.
Her eye fell on Danifae, who knelt quietly in the shade of a broken arch, calmly watching her leave.
The broken arch suggested a church, yet other clues implied a more secular structure.
The house was not, in Laura's view, a mansion, but with its pediments, its broken arch above the door and its balanced wings, it was a handsome specimen of Georgian architecture.