corbel vault

noun

a structure having the form of a vault but constructed on the principle of a corbel arch.

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Occasionally the chamber, and even the passage, is built of masonry and roofed with stone slabs or a corbel vault, and the simple door–slab gives place to a stone door, hinged, or sliding in a grooved frame.