How to pronounce“voussoir”in English
IPA/vuˈswɑːr/
Syllablesvous·soir
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Definitions of “voussoir”
noun
One of a series of wedge-shaped bricks or stones forming an arch or vault.
“It is the voussoir depth in a real arch which enables the arch to carry wider ranges of loading; a large number of different idealized centre-line arches can be contained within a given practical profile. ...[T]his must be so, or no mediaeval bridge would have survived its decentering.”