Category:Stilted

Stilt"ed, a.

Defn: elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a Stilted style; stilted declamation. Stilted arch (arch.), an arch in Which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space Between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as A continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc.