tunnel vault

noun

1. another name for barrel vault

Example Sentences

He now thinks that along with ecological data, the granite-lined tunnel vault should hold analog versions of the world’s most valuable knowledge, from Bibles to dictionaries to quantum mechanics texts, to help future generations rebuild civilization in the event of natural disasters or nuclear war.

From Los Angeles Times

The roofs of such habitations were arched in the form of a tunnel vault.

From Project Gutenberg

The construction of the wigwam was generally a framework of saplings or young trees spaced nearly vertically in the ground at regular intervals, and bowed at the top, to make the dome or tunnel vault, as the case might be.

From Project Gutenberg

The bodies were stuffed mummies with bones and skin still intact, and were laid out side by side upon a scaffolding of vertical poles about nine or ten feet high, well lined with mats, and roofed with a matted tunnel vault.

From Project Gutenberg

Above the tunnel vault, in the city up there, certain dull reports.

From Project Gutenberg