squinches in English
noun
1
a straight or arched structure across an interior angle of a square tower to carry a superstructure such as a dome.
Bam provided a veritable encyclopaedia of such historic structural elements: varieties of sun-dried mud brick squinches and vaults, many with the inclined arched technique recently used by Hassan Fathy.
verb
1
tense up the muscles of (one's eyes or face).
Gina squinched her face up
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1. 8 He squinches his features sorely.