vaulty

American  

[vawl-tee] / ˈvɔl ti /

adjective

1. having the appearance or characteristics of a vault; arching.

   the vaulty rows of elm trees.

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Etymology

Origin of vaulty

First recorded in 1535–45; vault ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Now hear the lark, The herald of the morn; ... whose notes do beat The vaulty heavens, so high above our heads, ...

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Who the chart shall draw Of the strange courts and vaulty labyrinths, The spacious tenements and wide pleasances, Innumerable corridors far-withdrawn, Where I wander darkling, of myself?

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

Now, on the mountain-billows upward driv'n, The navy mingles with the clouds of heav'n; Now, rushing downward with the sinking waves, Bare they behold old Ocean's vaulty caves.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

Nor that is not Larke whose noates do beate The vaulty heauen so high aboue our heads, I haue more care to stay, then will to go: Come death and welcome, Iuliet wills it so.

From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William

And that is not the lark, whose notes do beat The vaulty heaven so high above our heads: I have more care to stay, than wil to go.

From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel