"A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, especially in Germany, as a means of providing support to act against the sideways forces arising out of the roof structures that lack adequate bracing." (Wikipedia)
these were invented in the gothic period as a way of building taller buildings; there was a special interest in building taller, but there were obviously structural problems, gravity etc; in order to withstand the load of taller walls, the buttresses were created; these give extra support to weak areas where stones would tend to displace from, (specially when building a vaulted ceiling, or an arch etc,) since these stones were not held in place by mortar or any type of concrete, but by their own weight and placement.
A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement.
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My face is a buttress
Buttress roots are not edible.
its called a flying buttress
The buttress supports the roof above the statues (n.)
A buttress root.
my pet buttress name is sally
A buttress is a certain kind of architectural structure. An example sentence would be: He designed that buttress in 5 months.
one example of buttress roots is the Paduak tree
Buttress
The singular possessive form of the noun buttress is buttress's.The plural form of the noun buttress is buttresses. The plural possessive form is buttresses'.
A buttress-root is a root growing from the above-ground stem or trunk, providing support.
A flying buttress is not a feature of Romanesque architecture.