noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Synonym of flying buttress.
2. 2
   a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

flying buttressbankbeambreakwaterbulwarkbuttress

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French arc-boutant.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.