spandrels in English

noun
1
the almost triangular space between one side of the outer curve of an arch, a wall, and the ceiling or framework.
Relief panels containing scenes from the Childhood of Christ filled the triangular spandrels between the gables dominating the screen's facade.
noun
    spandril

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1. Spandrels, Brackets, Friezes & Crestings; Filters Metal castings type

2. Bronze spandrels between the third- and fourth-floor windows depicted scenes from American industry: Shipping, Farming, Manufacturing, Mining and Lumbering.

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4. The field design of the Dirksen Cairene is typical of one sub-group where the medallion and spandrels are superimposed on an endless repeating field of palmettes and

5. Dawkins has consistently been sceptical about non-adaptive processes in evolution (such as spandrels, described by Gould and Lewontin) and about selection at levels "above" that of the gene.

6. The attack on Adaptationism expressed in Spandrels, and which Lewontin and Gould each pursued in many other works, would probably have been far less aggressive if the adaptive significance of the variation in the color of snail-shells were the only thing at stake.