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TUNNEL VAULT

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 409 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TUNNEL (Fr. tonne!, later tonneau, a diminutive from Low Lat. tonna, tunna, a tun, cask)

TUNNEL VAULT , the See also:

TERM

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

architecture given to the semicircular or elliptical vault over underground passages, ,in contradistinction to the See also:

WAGON, or WAGGON

wagon or See also:

BARREL (a word of uncertain origin common to Romance languages; the Celtic forms, as in the Gaelic baraill, are derived from the English)

barrel vault of edifices above ground .

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