What is "ogival"

Usage examples of "ogival".

And from Neo-Gothic ogival windows market light fell on freshly smoked fish.

While there clarity prevailed over all mysteries, we trained our muscles in a mysterious twilight: our gymnasium had ogival windows, their panes broken up by rosettes and flamboyant tracery.

Especially on bright mornings, when a few rays of sun found their way through the foliage in the yard and the ogival windows, the oblique beams, falling on the moving figures of athletes performing on the trapeze or rings, produced strange, romantic effects.

He wanted to stand in the dust-swarming light that trickled through Neo-Gothic ogival windows.

Rubeus was strongest in this ort, and he leaned his dark ogival face into the warmth of the sunlight with a deep gratification.

She had a confused impression of endless riches of soft pastel colours, palace after palace in tints of rose and amber and pearl dyeing the waters of the canal, and dappling the shadows with broken images of their ogival window-frames and fretted loggias.

I was shown into a small room where ogival windows looked onto trees, flowering vines, a marble fountain with no water in it.

The shapes were various: round, rectangular and oval or shrine-shaped with ogival tops, an outline often repeated by the window which in recent times was closed with imported glass.

I gazed upwards there was a flash of lightning and my eyes, though dazzled by the brightness, glimpsed the great timbers of the vaulted roof bearing illuminated armorial insignia on the corbeilles, the ogival hoods above the lofty windows, and ancient portraits hanging below them still with shreds of the yellowed muslin clinging to them with which they must once have been wrapped for protection.

At short intervals there are walled-up gateways, round-headed or ogival in form, and the whole surface is rent and patched.