sail vault

English edit

Sail vault construction scheme.

An altar with a sail vault.

Noun edit

sail vault (plural sail vaults)

(architecture) A dome-shaped vault constrained to the square inscribed in the base circle.

Translations edit

type of vault

Italian: volta a vela

See also edit

pendentive

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