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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 See also:term in See also:architecture employed for the vault of the See also:internal See also:hood of a See also:doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal; some-times the vaulting See also:surface is terminated by a small See also:rib known as the scoinson rib (q.v.), and a further development is given by See also:angle shafts carrying this rib, known as scoinson shafts .

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