fan vaulting

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   an elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans

   Broadervaulting

   Partsfan tracery

Questions about fan vaulting

What does fan vaulting mean?

fan vaulting means "an elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans".

Is fan vaulting a common word?

fan vaulting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.