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Definition of Ribbed vault
1. Noun. Vault that resembles a groined vault but has ribbed arches.
Definition of Ribbed vault
1. Noun. (architecture) A building structure created by an intersection of two or three vaults. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribbed Vault
Literary usage of Ribbed vault
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of the History of Architecture by Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1902)
"... independently the curvature he desired. The vaulting-surfaces were then easily
twisted or warped so as to fit the va- nG. 108. — ribbed vault, ENGLISH ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A ribbed vault in which there are many secondary ribs. (See Lierne. ... Rib Vault ;
ribbed vault. One built with ribs as the principal structure. ..."
3. Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico by Sidney David Markman (1984)
"It appears that the Gothic-ribbed vault as used in the presbyteries of the
traditional mudejar churches near Seville is here transformed in style into a ..."
4. Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward (1915)
"Now assume that the builder was familiar with the four-part I cross-ribbed vault—a
reasonable assumption since everything seems to U point to an earlier ..."
5. A Rudimentary Treatise on Masonry and Stonecutting: In which the Principles by Edward Dobson (1849)
"... and even the vaulted roof of the cathedral of Milan is a plain ribbed vault,
ornamented with painted tracery. 27. In Germany and the Netherlands we find ..."
6. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"(For fancy ribbed vault, see RIB. ) For various unusual forms, such as cloistered
vault, wagon vault, the various forms of conical vaults, as well as for a ..."
7. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"It was built in the twelfth century. diagonal rib of a ribbed vault, ...
The diagonal rib in a ribbed vault occupying the place where a groin might be ..."
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