ribbed vault

noun

, Architecture.

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

Example Sentences

Then in the first phase of Plantagenet Gothic appeared the ascendency of ribbed vault over cupola.

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

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Thus at Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland, there is a small square chancel with a ribbed vault.

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Nor in that thick-ribbed vault would our eyes be deaf to her rivers and her seas.

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