The Magic of Oz™

Arch

An ornamental entrance structure spanning the road to Foxville.

First named in The Road to Oz, ch. 3

they found that the arch was beautifully carved and decorated with rich colors

Where this is

  • placed Beyond the desert worked out

    read out of the chapters cited on this page, not stated in any one sentence of them

    Spans the road into Foxville, whose Fox-King says he doesn't know Ozma personally and calls his city 'nearer to Oz than to Kansas' — outside Oz proper.

What the books say it is

  • size big 1 chapter
    • a fine big arch spanning the road, and when they came nearer they found that the arch was beautifully carved and decorated with rich colors. A row of peacocks with spread tails ran along the top of it, and all the feathers were gorgeously painted. In the center was a large fox's head, and the fox wore a shrewd and knowing expression and had large spectacles over its eyes and a small golden crown with shiny points on top of its head.
      The Road to Oz, ch. 3
  • texture beautifully carved and decorated with rich colors 1 chapter
    • a fine big arch spanning the road, and when they came nearer they found that the arch was beautifully carved and decorated with rich colors. A row of peacocks with spread tails ran along the top of it, and all the feathers were gorgeously painted. In the center was a large fox's head, and the fox wore a shrewd and knowing expression and had large spectacles over its eyes and a small golden crown with shiny points on top of its head.
      The Road to Oz, ch. 3
  • appearance beautifully carved and decorated with rich colors 1 chapter
    • Before long they saw ahead of them a fine big arch spanning the road, and when they came nearer they found that the arch was beautifully carved and decorated with rich colors.
      The Road to Oz, ch. 3

Appearances

The Road to Oz (1 of 24 chapters)