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выведенными полукруглыми нишами

English translation: beautifully built / outlined / shaped niches

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Russian term or phrase:красиво выведенные ниши
English translation:beautifully built / outlined / shaped niches
Entered by: Alexander Kayumov

22:33 Aug 15, 2015
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Architecture
Russian term or phrase: выведенными полукруглыми нишами
From a work on architectural monuments in Constantinople.

I have to admit I'm used to thinking of niches being выведенными. Protruding? Yet a niche is concave. Help!

Самой первой на этом месте появилась баня, построенная одновременно с акведуком Валенса. Ее остатки, с красиво выведенными полукруглыми нишами, хорошо видны и сейчас между акведуком и церковью
Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 20:12
beautifully built / outlined / shaped niches
Explanation:
Perhaps in this case the author meant "выводить" in the artistic sense "to draw / depict / trace / shape / etc." (as in "выводить буквы / узоры / трели"), not in the litereal spatial sense "to protrude"? I mean, there is only one way for a niche to protrude, so there can't be a beautiful way and non-beautiful ways to do it - but lots of ways for the architect to shape a niche.

So "красиво выведенные ниши" would be something along the lines of beautifully built / outlined / shaped niches.

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Note added at 8 hrs (2015-08-16 07:06:48 GMT)
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PS. Besides, I don't think one can even say, in Russian, that a "ниша выведена" in the sense "the niche is protruding". One would instead say that "ниша выдаётся" or something similar.
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Alexander Kayumov
Russian Federation
Local time: 05:12
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красиво выведенные ниши
beautifully built / outlined / shaped niches


Explanation:
Perhaps in this case the author meant "выводить" in the artistic sense "to draw / depict / trace / shape / etc." (as in "выводить буквы / узоры / трели"), not in the litereal spatial sense "to protrude"? I mean, there is only one way for a niche to protrude, so there can't be a beautiful way and non-beautiful ways to do it - but lots of ways for the architect to shape a niche.

So "красиво выведенные ниши" would be something along the lines of beautifully built / outlined / shaped niches.

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Note added at 8 hrs (2015-08-16 07:06:48 GMT)
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PS. Besides, I don't think one can even say, in Russian, that a "ниша выведена" in the sense "the niche is protruding". One would instead say that "ниша выдаётся" or something similar.

Alexander Kayumov
Russian Federation
Local time: 05:12
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 4
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