Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subordinate rib used in Gothic vaulting to connect the intersections and bosses of the primary ribs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, any rib in vaulting that does not rise from the impost, and is not a ridge-rib, but passes from a boss or intersection of the principal ribs to other secondary ribs. Vaults in which such ribs are employed are called
lierne vaults .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Both have 'lierne' vaults [_i. e._, vaults in which short transverse ribs or 'liernes' are mixed with the ribs that branch from the vaulting capitals], and in both the triforium is obtained by prolonging the clerestory windows downward, and making panels of the lower lights, which panels have a plain opening cut through them, by which the triforium space communicates with the passage over the roof of the side-aisles. "
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
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Behind him, the wall was mostly crystal window with thin lierne ribs, providing a view clear across Makkathran.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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The bridge took them into the Ilongo district, which was made up of small box-like buildings, two or three storeys high with vaulting lierne roofs, and walls which often leaned away from perpendicular.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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The room was empty, now, allowing her footsteps to echo overhead from the intricate lierne vaulting with the wavelike, sweeping ribs.
Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995
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The vault of the tower is a lierne vault, and from the occurrence of the arms of Sir Guy de Brien, once quartered with those of Montacute
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This spacious apartment owes the form of its curious floor to the vaulting of the lantern-space in the time of Sir Guy de Brien, whose arms are found in the lierne-vaulting which supports the floor.
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Two other _Side Chapels_ deserve to be mentioned, viz. the two eastmost on the north side, which were the first roofed with lierne vaulting.
A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild
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The lierne vaulting of the vestibule is very delicate (the ribs, it will be noted, are run differently in the four quarters of the roof), and the pendants form a cross.
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The vaulting is lierne vaulting, with short ribs, which connect the main ribs together.
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Perpendicular work with a splendid roof of lierne vaulting.
Beautiful Britain: Canterbury Gordon Home 1923
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