perpendicular : Idioms & Phrases


Perpendicular style

  • noun a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
    English-Gothic architecture; perpendicular; English-Gothic.
WordNet
  • (Arch.), a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early part of the 16th; probably so called from the vertical style of its window mullions.
Webster 1913