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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 VAULT , the
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term in architecture given to the semicircular or elliptical vault over underground passages, ,in contradistinction to the wagon or barrel vault of edifices above ground .

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