barrel roof

noun

1. a roof or ceiling having a semicylindrical form.
2. barrel vault.

Example Sentences

Now, 28 months after the City Council approved a plan to turn the 99-year-old armory, with its barrel roof, parapets and turrets, into a $350 million center for ice hockey and figure skating, that proposal is also in jeopardy.

From New York Times

Under the barrel roof of York Hall – a boxing venue – music by Underworld sends a metallic beat through the action, and giant videos flicker behind a hectically lit revolving stage.

From The Guardian

Inside there is now but one vast hall with pointed barrel roof, for all the wooden floors are gone, leaving only the beam holes in the walls, the Gothic fireplaces, and the small windows to show where they once were.

From Project Gutenberg

The cloister of the abbey is certainly of a date later than the massacre of the monks, which took place according to tradition in the little square of wild greensward which lies within it; but the roughness of its masonry, the plain barrel roof, and the rude manner in which the low, gloomy vaulting is carried round its angles, are of the same character as in the usual tenth-century buildings of Southern Gaul.

From Project Gutenberg

A flat projecting rib of stone divides the barrel roof of the nave from the circular vault of the apse which slopes upwards to the rounded summit of the tiny window.

From Project Gutenberg