Definition of "apses" []

• Plural form of apse. (noun)

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• "However, the walls of the three apses had already been erected up to a height of three metres."
• "Domes, spheres, apses, barrels, tubes, and the like were joined in a complexity of angles, connections, and fusions, so that the whole rather resembled a mass of merged soap bubbles."
• "Call me “old school,” but I still prefer the timeless apses of Arcosanti over this, when it comes to form-of-density, but then – I still like stone, wood, glass, metals. . ."