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In some of the central and southern districts, domes, or at least domical vaults, were employed.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)
All the vaults are domical, and those of the nave spring from corbels carved in the style of Venetian fifteenth-century work.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
These words arrested my attention, and a minute later, I had ascended the domical summit of the hill, and stood at the foot of the high monument.
From The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany by Heffner, George H.
The climax of a domical church is obviously the dome.
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)
The nave is thus covered completely by a domical canopy, which, in its ascent, swells larger and larger, mounts higher and higher, as though a miniature heaven rose overhead.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
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