groined vault

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   two barrel vaults intersecting at right angles

   Broadervault

Questions about groined vault

What does groined vault mean?

groined vault means "two barrel vaults intersecting at right angles".

Is groined vault a common word?

groined vault 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.