单词 | rear vault |
释义 | rear vaultn. Architecture. Chiefly in Gothic architecture: a vault connecting the head of an arched window or door frame with the arch in the inner face of the wall in which it is set. Cf. rear arch n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > arch > [noun] > vaulting > specific type Welsh groin1778 groin-vault1825 Welsh vaulting1835 Welsh vault1840 cross-vaulting1842 rear vault1844 barrel-form1849 barrel-vault1849 cross-vault1850 Welsh groining1867 tunnel-vault- 1844 R. Willis Archit. Nomencl. Middle Ages §81 We may therefore call the said vault, rib, and shaft, the rear-vault, rear-rib, and rear shaft of the window or door. 1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. ii. 46 These window groups being internally set back into a single recessed panel, and surmounted by a single rear-vault. 1956 G. F. Webb Archit. in Brit. 220 Rear-vault, the space between a rear-arch and the outer stone-work of a window. 2002 A. Kaplony Haram of Jerusalem 324–1099 265 Above the semicircular arches segmental rear vaults of slightly greater span so that the door leaves may fold back flush with the piers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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