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:

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

    “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)

    “Thus to him, to this schoolboy under the bending dome of day, is suggested that he and it proceed from one root; one is leaf and one is flower; relation, sympathy, stirring in every vein. And what is that root? Is not that the soul of his soul?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)