tierceron
English edit
Etymology edit
From French tierceron, from tierce (“third”) + -eron.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tierceron (plural tiercerons)
- (architecture) A type of rib in Gothic vaulting, springing from the intersection of two other ribs.
- 1901, Thomas Lennox Watson, The double choir of Glasgow Cathedral: a study of rib vaulting, page 92:
- It would carry us too far from our subject to trace the consequences of the introduction of the tierceron; it must suffice to say that it immediately affected the curvature and the moulding of the vaulting ribs and the composition of the springer.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Noun edit
tierceron m (plural tiercerons)
Further reading edit
- “tierceron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.