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

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

The tower is battlemented, and has some individual gargoyle heads around its gutter, and the barrel roof of the interior has richly carved wooden bosses, with the remains of painting upon them.

From Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by Presland, John

The plain stone barrel roof should be noted.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Addleshaw, Percy

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