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Formeret :: Formeret (n.) One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line..

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..

Vault :: Vault (n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar..

Azure :: Azure (n.) The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.

Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead..

Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..

Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..

Rib :: Rib (n.) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like..

Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Covered with an arch, or vault..

Echometry :: Echometry (n.) The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.

Vault :: Vault (n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

Corona :: Corona (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis..

Bay :: Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers..

Lierne Rib :: Lierne rib () In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another..

Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap or bound.

Concameration :: Concameration (n.) An arch or vault.

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