ribbed vault

American  

noun

Architecture.

1. a vault supported by or decorated with diagonal ribs.

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Example Sentences

This was the first major neoclassical building erected in Kyiv, with a straw-colored stone facade and vast galleries beneath grand, brick-lined ribbed vaults.

From New York Times

MisheGOTHIC ARCHITECTURE: Pointy arches, ribbed vaults, stained glass, flying buttresses — enough already!

From Washington Post

A particular splendor of Toulouse is the Church of the Jacobins, a deconsecrated Dominican church with remarkable murals, stained glass windows and ribbed vaults, including a 22-branch palm tree vault in the apse.

From Washington Times

We're guessing they must have had a fondness for pointed arches, ribbed vaults and flying buttresses.

From The Guardian

I reached the grove, at this cool hour so like a green lagoon where coral piers branch up to some ribbed vault.

From Project Gutenberg