flying buttress

English

Flyers

Noun

flying buttress (plural flying buttresses)

1. (architecture) A buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports, and is connected to it by an arch (flyer).

   Synonym: arc-boutant

Translations

buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports

• Belarusian: аркбута́н m (arkbután)
• Catalan: arcbotant m
• Czech: vzpěrný oblouk m
• Dutch: luchtboog (nl) m
• Finnish: tukipilari (fi), ulkoinen tukipilari
• French: arc-boutant (fr) m
• Galician: arcobotante (gl) m
• German: Strebebogen m
• Greek: επίστεγη αντηρίδα f (epístegi antirída)
• Hebrew: תמיכות דואות f pl
• Italian: arco rampante m
• Macedonian: потпорна арка f (potporna arka)
• Norwegian: strebebue m
• Portuguese: arcobotante (pt) m
• Russian: аркбута́н (ru) m (arkbután)
• Spanish: arbotante (es) m
• Swedish: strävbåge (sv) c, strävpelare (sv)
• Ukrainian: аркбута́н m (arkbután)

Further reading

• flying buttress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia