groin vault
English
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Noun
groin vault (plural groin vaults)
- (architecture) A vault resulting from the intersection of two barrel-vaults crossing in a right angle. Its thrusts are concentrated along the groins or arrises and eventually at the four corners
Synonyms
Translations
structure created by intersection of vaults
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