groined vault
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Noun
[edit]groined vault (plural groined vaults)
- (architecture) A vault resulting from the intersection of two barrel-vaults crossing in a right angle. Its thrusts are concentrated along the groins or arrises and eventually at the four corners
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[edit]structure created by intersection of vaults — see groin vault