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groin vaults

n. (groin vault English)

Usage examples of "groin vaults".

The nave of this Spanish baroque church, huge and old and lovely -- currently undergoing a little restoration -- featured a long central barrel vault, deep groin vaults on two sides, and a long center-aisle colonnade of massive thirty-foot columns that stood on ornately sculpted six-foot pedestals.

The massive pine trunks were columns in a vast nave, and the spreading boughs formed groin vaults and fan vaults high overhead.

The twelve-foot-high ceiling was composed of four groin vaults, and the shadows that lay across those concave surfaces were complex and intriguing.