Dome

Dome

A dome is an element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome structures made of various materials have a long architectural lineage extending into prehistory.

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Famous quotes containing the word dome:

    “But in the dome of mighty Mars the red,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening. Water ran down hill and birds nested.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Drab Habitation of Whom?
    Tabernacle or Tomb—
    Or Dome of Worm—
    Or Porch of Gnome—
    Or some Elf’s Catacomb?”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)