English Dictionary

thole

IPA（発音記号）

/θəʊl/

名詞

(architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

日本語の意味

（建築用語）クーポラ、小屋根、ドーム、または円形建築（回廊・ロトンダ）など、半球状または丸い形状の建築物を指す。

From the courtyard, the old monastery's thole gleamed in the morning sun, its lantern windows casting warm patterns across the cloister.

中庭から見ると、古い修道院のクーポラは朝日を浴びて輝き、そのランタン窓が回廊に温かな模様を投げかけていた。

意味（1）

(architecture) A cupola, a dome, a rotunda; a tholus.

Philostratus relates that the king's house in Babylon had a roof of brass, which shone like lightning, and that in that house there was a chamber, whose ceiling was a thole (that is, a concave hemisphere) made in imitation of some system of the heaven, and with sapphire-coloured stones, […] and from the thole were suspended four golden doves, or iynges, who were called the Tongues of the Gods.

tholes （ plural ）