Definition of Groinings

1. groining [n] - See also: groining

Lexicographical Neighbors of Groinings

grognard
grognards
grogram
grograms
grogs
grogshop
grogshops
groid
groin attack
groin ulcer
groinal
groined
groined vault
groining
groinings (current term)
groins
groinward
grok
grokked
grokking
groks
grom
groma
gromas
gromet
gromets
gromill
grommet
grommeted

Literary usage of Groinings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"The elaborate groined ceilings of Gothic structures are rarely executed now; some of these groinings arc in stone, others in plaster. [GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. ..."

2. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"At this last situation two ribs, analogous to groinings in architecture, intersect each other: one extends from the centre of the frontal bone to the most ..."

3. Hints for Six Months in Europe: Being the Programme of a Tour Through Parts by John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe (1869)
"... separating the chapels that surround it, the entrance to which is under Gothic arches, while between them and the central column are fan-like groinings. ..."

4. Architectural Antiquities by John Carter (1890)
"The exterior of this edifice has to its basement a Tudor window, doorway, and several corbels, with remnants of groinings springing from them, evincing that ..."

5. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"For a moment, enveloped as he was in straw, and with the rude arch of the dungeon meeting in four rough- hewn groinings above his head, he stared about him ..."

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