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 Translation for 'barrel vault' from English to Czech
NOUN   a barrel vault | barrel vaults
arch.
barrel vault {noun}
valená klenba {f}
sport
vault {noun}
skok {m}
arch.
vault {noun}
klenba {f}
barrel {noun}barel {m}
barrel {noun}sud {m}
arch.
ribbed vault {noun}
křížová klenba {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • Built of stone demolished from temples, it featured a monumental ribbed barrel vault over the central nave, the first such giant vault used anywhere in the subcontinent.
  • The southern part contains a mihrab and is covered with a barrel vault.
  • The composition consists of a pilaster framed aedicula within which a spatially receding barrel vault leads the eye back to the actual doorway of the sacramental closet.
  • The ceiling of the chapel is a flattened barrel vault springing from a course that encircles the walls at the level of the springing of the window arches.
  • Its long barrel vault is decorated with ornate stucco and gilt, and successfully illuminated by small windows between pendentives, while the ornate marble floor is beamed with light reflected in from the piazza.

  • The nave has a barrel vault with a dome that marks the crossing.
  • The barrel vault is returned to architectural vocabulary as at the St.
  • As with all arch-based constructions, there is an outward thrust generated against the walls underneath a barrel vault.
  • There is a coffered barrel-vault ceiling at Federal Triangle, as is typical of other Washington Metro stations built at that time.
  • Liborio Coccetti painted an "Assumption" on the barrel vault ceiling.

  • The station is covered in white tiles like most other stations of the Métro, and uses a barrel vault that runs lengthwise over the tracks and platform.
  • The church's unusual plaster barrel vault dates from 1775, after the previous roof was destroyed by fire in 1774.
  • The nave ceiling is a flattened barrel vault, divided into panels by ribs.
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