Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD;
characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades;
[syn: Romanesque, Romanesque architecture]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Romanesque architecture
n 1: a style of architecture developed in Italy and western
Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000
AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the
substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and
arcades [syn: Romanesque, Romanesque architecture]