tunnel vault
Britishnoun
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The roofs of such habitations were arched in the form of a tunnel vault.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee
Going further, they stepped upon the curve of a tunnel vault, and were obliged to stoop low to avoid striking against another overhead.
From The Heart of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Small clerestory windows cast sheets of pale light on the plain piers, rectangular and heavy, that rise to support a tunnel vault and divide the church into three naves of great and slender height.
From Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Rose, Elise Whitlock
Above the tunnel vault, in the city up there, certain dull reports.
From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain
The tunnel vault and the joisted ceiling were equally well suited to the long galleries of Assyrian palaces.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir
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