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n. (plural of triumphal arch English)
Usage examples of "triumphal arches".
The king was received by the citizens with great feasts, and the streets were hung with rich cloths, and with many triumphal arches under which he passed.
He knew Rome's piazzas, fountains, forums, triumphal arches, temples, not for their historical background but for the nationality of the women who made these areas their headquarters.
The triumphal arches of Titus, Severus, and Constantine, were entire, both the structure and the inscriptions.
They built triumphal arches for their returning heroes, and strewed the road before them with leaves and flowers.
It was, they agreed, a sad decline from the days when travel with the Queen involved banquets and triumphal arches in every town, audiences with nobles, troops of burghers appearing to doff their hats and bend their knees.
Laurie was equally impracticable, and would have had bonfires, skyrockets, and triumphal arches, if he had had his own way.
Garlands and triumphal arches were hung across the road to welcome the young bride.
He remembered in his dreams riding through a metropolis of marble and fountains, triumphal arches and the pillared buildings where the whole government of the Isles transacted its business.
From Rome to Beijing, Timbuktu to London, triumphal arches crop up wherever there are cities, heavy with the weight of earth and death.
Great dunes of sand had poured in through proud triumphal arches, had filled the pavements and courtyards.