REAR VAULT (Fr. arriere voussure)

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REAR VAULT (Fr. arriere voussure) , the

term

TERM

architecture

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

employed for the vault of the

internal

INTERNAL

hood

of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal; some-times the vaulting surface is terminated by a small rib known as the scoinson rib (q.v.), and a further development is given by

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the
primitive
- PRIMITIVE
form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, 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

shafts carrying this rib, known as scoinson shafts.

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