triumphal arch - definition and synonyms

Open English WordNet

a monumental archway; usually they are built to commemorate some notable victoryType of arch, memorial

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Triumphal arch

a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

From the entry Arch.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54