Many Gothic cathedrals, such as the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, have flying buttresses.
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Buttresses
Synonyms for "buttresses" (158 found)
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The moonlight lay over a peaceful landscape of lawns and thickets, against which the straggling ruins of the old abbey stood out in tragic outlines, truncated columns, mutilated arches, fragments of porches and shreds of flying buttresses.
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