onion dome
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈʌnjən doʊm/
:
cúpula en forma de cebolla
- The central onion dome was surrounded by smaller domes that clustered like great water droplets, gold-plated and glistening.
- golden onion dome
- onion domes and turrets
- gold onion domes
Examples
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There was a picture on the front, one of those churches with the golden onion domes.
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Those onion domes?
Blog text (24) -
"The sun hung on the northern horizon, onion domes and chimney pots.
Fiction book (1992) -
Beyond a small river, he saw red walls, gold onion domes, and palaces of white stone—the Kremlin.
Fiction book (2000) -
Rolling steppe spread out from the foot of the ridge, broken by loops of river, dark patches of ploughland, and the onion domes of village churches.
Fiction book (2001) -
"She must have loved my papa very much to leave such a wonderful place," Allegra said to Betty as they stood outside the Pavilion, watching as a weak sun glinted off the main onion dome and danced against the stained-glass windows.
Fiction book (1991) -
No matter how spangled the golden onion domes, how bestuccoed the Stalinist facades, or how commanding the views over the wide river Dnieper, the place left no impression on me.
Academic text (2008) -
At least on Highway Nine, there was a winery, a major park in Kildonan, and a number of Ukrainian Orthodox churches with onion domes pointing at the F.P. Grove clouds sailing overhead on a good day.
Fiction book (1990) -
Beyond a small river, he saw red walls, gold onion domes, and palaces of white stone—the Kremlin.
Synonyms
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3.4
A rounded roof or ceiling on a building, such as a church
How Bulbous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a dome shaped like a bulb' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'onion' (a bulbous vegetable) with 'dome' (a rounded roof); a learner who knows both words can readily infer a bulb-shaped roof. The metaphor is concrete and cross-linguistically common in architectural descriptions, making it easily comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Onion dome comes from the roof's look: the dome is rounded like an onion, with a narrow top and a wide middle. You often see this on Russian churches, so the name means a 'bulb-shaped' dome used as a decorative roof.