0 to press together the features of the face or the muscles of the body:
He squinched up his face in a look that left no doubt about his displeasure.
This building has a prayer hall covered with cross-vaults, with a dome resting on squinches over the area in front of the "mihrab".
While the central dome is nearly plain, in the interior the four corners are provided with a series of squinches.
The rooms are dome-shaped; transition from a quadrangular frame to a dome is by a squinch.
The dome is supported on giant squinches supported by groined pendentives while outside the building is supported by domed octagonal corner towers.
Prior to the pendentive's development, the device of corbelling or the use of the squinch in the corners of a room had been employed.
However, the latter has a pendentive below each squinch.
The dome rests on large squinches, which are supported by corbels.
The floor was lowered and 17th century plasterwork was removed to reveal a system of eight large and sixteen small squinches under the circular drum.
