Having haunches; having a pronounced hip region, or in architecture, describing an arch that is reinforced at its sides.
Formed by adding '-ed' to 'haunch,' creating an adjective. In architecture, 'haunched' became a technical term for a specific type of arch support used in masonry construction.
Medieval architects developed specialized vocabulary for every structural trick they used—'haunched arch' is one of those beautiful technical terms that shows how much mathematics and engineering went into building cathedrals.
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