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Perpendicular

The English word “Perpendicular” has 1 meaning listed here.

adjective

  1. Of a style of English Gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, marked by stiff and rectilinear lines, mostly vertical window-tracery, depressed or four-centre arch, fan-tracery vaulting, and panelled walls.
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