What is "barrel vaults"

Usage examples of "barrel vaults".

Nadia said, thinking of her beautiful barrel vaults, of the steaming whirlpool bath and a glass of icy vodka.

The resulting blackish-red bricks had a tensile strength that was technically adequate for use in the barrel vaults, but Gene wasn't happy.

Underpitch vaults, barrel vaults, grain vaults, fan vaults, quadripartite and sexpartite and tierceron vaults are more than mere arches.

Nadia had fixed a lot of things in those years-the barrel vaults, the manufactories, the arcade-who would have suspected a person so quiet on the Ares would prove so competent and energetic?

It could have been one of the barrel vaults in Underbill, back in the beginning.

This had led to a standoff just outside the station itself, under the tent that covered the old arcade and the original quadrant of barrel vaults, now looking very small and quaint.

His alcove was just off the main audience hall, its thick, squat walls dwarfed by the lofty barrel vaults above, its rock floor warmed and softened by carpets.

The resulting blackish-red bricks had a tensile strength that was technically adequate for use in the barrel vaults, but Gene wasn’.

John roomed in one of the old barrel vaults, near the northeast corner of the quadrant.

Aris shifted his scrutiny to the great plaza of gloom sculptures that surrounded the Palace Most High, then slowly moved his gaze along the edge until he came to a huge, many-spired mansion with a procession of flying buttresses and a long tunnel of barrel vaults.

The two habitats that had not been turned into labs were still outfitted with the original living quarters equipment, and after inspecting them, and then going back out and walking around the barrel vaults, and the Alchemists’.

The west side of the courtyard looked as if it had sustained battle damage, but that was the result of ongoing refurbishment: the wall had been knocked down and was in early stages of replacement by a portico of four column-supported barrel vaults.

Some buildings were topped by long barrel vaults, and others with hip roofs, covered with tile or slate.