Lexicographical Neighbors of Groinings
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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