A buttress is a structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall[1]. A flying buttress extends off the outside of the building to aid in support[2].
Bellairs Corpus[]
- The Abbot of Trocadero added the wooden Gothic church elements to the Cathedral of Saint Gorboduc, including buttresses of mahogany (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 34).
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- ↑ Wikipedia: Buttress
- ↑ Wikipedia: Flying buttress