Usually means: Supportive arches stabilizing Gothic walls.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word flying buttress:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. flying buttress: Merriam-Webster
  2. flying buttress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flying buttress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flying buttress: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flying buttress: Vocabulary.com
  6. flying buttress: Wordnik
  7. flying buttress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flying buttress: Wiktionary
  9. flying buttress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. flying buttress: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. flying buttress: Dictionary.com
  12. Flying Buttress, Flying buttress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. flying buttress: Rhymezone
  14. flying buttress: FreeDictionary.org
  15. flying buttress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. flying buttress: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. flying buttress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. flying buttress: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. FLYING BUTTRESS: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. flying buttress: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. flying buttress: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flying buttress: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flying Buttress: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (flying buttress)

noun:  (architecture) A buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports, and is connected to it by an arch (flyer).

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