domical vault

American  

noun

1. cloistered vault.

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Example Sentences

Each arm of the building is covered by a flat domical vault; a single order of pilasters and columns runs quite round the interior of the church occupying the entire height of the walls; and the light is admitted in a most successful manner by large semicircular windows at the upper part of the church, starting above the cornice of the order.

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From the pilasters between the apses cross arches spring beneath a domical vault with a pendant at their intersection; in the left pilaster by the apse is a recess.

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It should therefore rather be called a domical vault.

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On either side of the nave, towards the eastern end of each aisle, there is an approximately square compartment covered with a domical vault, and having an opening communicating with the nave immediately to the west of the bema.

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This brick and stone walling is, so far as could be ascertained, homogeneous right up to the domical vault and the dome.

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