Dome

Dome

A dome is an element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome structures made of various materials have a long architectural lineage extending into prehistory.

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Famous quotes containing the word dome:

    “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
    As the swift seasons roll!
    Leave thy low-vaulted past!
    Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
    Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
    Till thou at length art free,
    Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
    All that man is,
    All mere complexities,
    The fury and the mire of human veins.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “But in the dome of mighty Mars the red,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)