| 单词 | welsh vaulting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWelsh vaulting Welsh vaulting n. Architecture (now historical and rare) a system of vaulting in which two cylindrical vaults of differing vertical heights intersect; the structure forming a Welsh vault; cf. Welsh groining n.Recorded earliest in attributive use. 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- 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 78 (note) Such cells are termed Welsh vaulting cells. 1858 Ecclesiologist 19 165 North transept, Welsh vaulting from circular shafts. 1908 L. Milman C. Wren xiv. 207 This curious construction of a cylinder cutting an elliptic, technically called Welsh-vaulting, may have been noticed by Wren at the Sorbonne. 1956 V. Fürst Archit. Sir C. Wren 192/2 The first [interior elevation] shows a flat ceiling;..the second shows the vaulted ceiling, with clerestorey windows inserted by ‘Welsh vaulting’, a method severely criticized by Blomfield, Short Hist., p. 120. < as lemmas |
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