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flying buttress

a buttress connected with a wall at some distance from it by an arch or part of an arch: it serves to resist outward pressure

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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