I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Concrete vaulting supported the tiers of seats as in an amphitheatre and under the vaults were corridors lit by outer arcades.
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Inside, it is on three-aisled, rectangular plan with Medieval vaulting and walls painted all over in figure compositions.
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Inside, the vaulting is quadripartite throughout and all of one height.
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On the staircase, Ried's hand can be seen again in the rib vaulting of c.1500.
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Since then his heart had not been in the horse vaulting or the running on the spot.
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The vaulting is once again recognizably his.
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The vaulting is ribbed throughout, lofty and well-proportioned.
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The nave and choir have the usual Gothic ribbed vault but in the aisles the Piast vaulting can be clearly studied.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the top of the building Chesarynth stepped out under a vaulting skylight.
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In both window tracery and vaulting designs there are, despite many variations, two distinct types of pattern.
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Sometimes, unawares, I would see her again suddenly revealed in the vaulting halls of my head.
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The rectangular vaulting bays are mostly star vaulted in many different designs.