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Dome

John Henry Parker

a cupola; the term is derived from the Italia, duomo, a cathedral, the custom of rercting cupolas on those building having been so prevalent that the namedome has, in the French and English languages, been transferred from the church to this kind of roof, (See Cupola.)
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