groinedadj.
/ɡrɔɪnd/ Architecture.
Built or furnished with groins.
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embowed1481
vaulted1552
grinded1715
cross-grindedc1720
groined1789
overvaulted1842
cross-vaulted1848
1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. Palladio Architecture (1721) I. 42 There are six different forms of Arches, viz., cross'd, flat, faciated, round, grinded [It. a lunette], and shell-like..The two last are but of a modern invention.]
1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Elements Civil Archit. 59 The middle sized rooms are of equal height with the others, with groined vaults.
1823 J. Rutter Delineations of Fonthill 9 The ceiling is vaulted, and divided into two groined compartments.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 76 Two great pointed arches crossing one another in a groined roof.
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