romanesque revival

romanesque revival
noun
Usage: usually capitalized 1st R
: a nostalgic stylistic return in the late 19th century to pre-Gothic architectural forms

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Romanesque Revival,
a style of architecture of the 1870's and 1880's that imitated Romanesque.

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