Perpendicular
See also: perpendicular
English
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editPerpendicular (comparative more Perpendicular, superlative most Perpendicular)
- (architecture) Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.