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a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades

a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades

Romanesque style.

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That which pertains to romance: (arch.) the debased style adopted in the later Roman empire: the dialect of Languedoc and other districts of the south of France.

That which appertains to romance; the debased style adopted in architecture, specially subsequent to and imitative of the Roman; the dialect of Languedoc and elsewhere in the South of France.

The debased style of architecture and ornament adopted in the later Roman empire; the common dialects of some of the southern districts of France, founded on the literary Latin and the dialects of anc. Italy; in paint., that which is made up of fable and romance.

n. In painting, representing subjects and scenes appropriate to romance; - somewhat resembling the Roman architecture.

n. In historical painting, the portrayal of fabulous or fanciful subjects;—a style of drawing and colouring natural objects or scenery in imaginary or fantastic forms and not from the life;- any of the forms of architecture derived from the Roman, as Byzantine, Lombard, Saxon, &c,;—the common dialect of languedoc and some other districts in the south of France.