barrel roof

American  

noun

1. a roof or ceiling having a semicylindrical form.

2. barrel vault.

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Example Sentences

Under the barrel roof of York Hall – a boxing venue – music by Underworld sends a metallic beat through the action, and giant videos flicker behind a hectically lit revolving stage.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2010

The densest point of the avenue of sycamores had been selected, where the boughs made a closely interlaced vault overhead; to these boughs the canvas had been hung, and a barrel roof was the result.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

But the barrel roof does not readily submit to a structural division into bays, or a structural decoration by means of ribs and bosses such as ornament and emphasise the divisions of the intersecting vault.

From The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur)

A flat projecting rib of stone divides the barrel roof of the nave from the circular vault of the apse which slopes upwards to the rounded summit of the tiny window.

From The Story of Rouen by Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir

Not so that of the transepts, which is a curious compromise between the form of the ordinary vault of stone and the simple barrel roof.

From The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur)