muqarnas

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Scope note
The network of small, repeated cellular forms resembling bottomless niches and sometimes corbeled and structural, more often suspended and decorative, which form the undersurfaces of vaults and domes common in Islamic architecture.
muqarnas
Accepted term: 29-Apr-2024