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REAR VAULT (Fr. arriere voussure)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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REAR VAULT (Fr. arriere voussure) , the

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TERM

term in

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ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture employed for the vault of the

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INTERNAL

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hood of a

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DOORWAY (corresponding to the Gr. Iran, Lat. porte)

doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal; some-times the vaulting

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SURFACE

surface is terminated by a small

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RIB (from 0. Eng. ribb; the word appears' in many Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Rippe, Swed. reb)

rib known as the scoinson rib (q.v.), and a further development is given by

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ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle shafts carrying this rib, known as scoinson shafts .

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