The Only Use of
flying buttress
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Starkly out of place in a town of square-faced stores and steep-roofed houses, the Maycomb jail was a miniature Gothic joke one cell wide and two cells high, complete with tiny battlements and flying buttresses.
p. 170.9flying buttresses = arches or half arches that transfer weight from an upper part of a wall to a lower support
Definition:
an arch or half-arch that transfers thrust from an upper part of a wall to a lower support