Greek-cross Sentence Examples
The badge is the black double-headed eagle surrounded by a blue-enamelled ornamented border, with the inscription Salus et Gloria on a white fillet; the eagle bears a red Greek cross with gold and blue borders.
Contemporary documents prove that the interior was begun in 1508 by Cola Matteuccio da Caprarola, and the exterior completed in1516-1524by Ambrogio da Milano and Francesco di Vito Lombardo; the slender dome was not added till .1606; its plan is a Greek cross.
The plan is a Greek cross with four octagonal towers supported on the barrel vaulting of the four arms of the cross.
In plan (see the article Architecture) St Mark's is a Greek cross of equal arms, covered by a dome in the centre, 42 ft.
It is formed by combining the Greek cross with the Greek letter chi (X) first letter of Christ in Greek.
In each of the four sections that result, there is a smaller Greek cross.
The Greek cross is equal in length on all sides and in some cases, the arms flare out as they extend.