English Explanatory Dictionary

cloister vault

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A vault resulting from the intersection of two barrel vaults crossing in a right angle. The angles of intersection are groins with projecting angles at the base, which die away at the summit.

Word forms

cloister vault cloister vaults
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