Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In architecture, having groins; showing the curved lines resulting from the intersection of two semicylinders or arches. See cut under
groin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Built with groins.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
groin .
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Examples
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The room in which Queen Bimbane received me was a superb apartment, magnificently decorated with elaborately carved columns supporting a kind of groined roof, the walls being draped with splendid tapestry worked on silk in gold thread, and hung with several enormous mirrors of polished silver in massive gold frames -- brackets supporting clusters of lamps on either side of each.
Through Veld and Forest An African Story Harry Collingwood 1886
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The rood-loft generally projected in front, so as to form a kind of groined cove, the ribs of which sprang or diverged from the principal uprights of the screen beneath.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846
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The joined arcs made the shape of birth and craving And the welded-open shape kept mouthing O.Ossified cords held the corners together In groined spirals pleated like a summer dress.
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The joined arcs made the shape of birth and craving And the welded-open shape kept mouthing O.Ossified cords held the corners together In groined spirals pleated like a summer dress.
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The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The lights in the groined vaults overhead changed again and shifted up the spectrum.
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The main décorative elements were the moulded plaster decorations, the panelled and groined ceiling, carved timber work, stained glass windows and gas-light pendants.
The Great Synagogue Sydney, 1878 Hels 2009
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Thus Mr. Fiennes grew up in rarefied circumstances, surrounded by the artifacts (and vocabulary) of a vanished world: halberds and stanchions, vaults and corbels, groined passages, burgonets, rapiers and spontoons.
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The main décorative elements were the moulded plaster decorations, the panelled and groined ceiling, carved timber work, stained glass windows and gas-light pendants.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hels 2009
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The groined roofs rose from six columns on each side, carved with the rarest skill; and the manner in which the crossings of the concave arches were bound together, as it were, with appropriate ornaments, were all in the finest tone of the architecture of the age.
The Talisman 2008
qroqqa commented on the word groined
The deep accumulation of dress fell about her in groined shadows, the train, rambling through a vista of primitive trees, was carpet-thick.
—Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
November 18, 2008