FAN VAULTING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fan vaulting" is a kind of...):

vaulting ((architecture) a vaulted structure)

Meronyms (parts of "fan vaulting"):

fan tracery (the carved tracery on fan vaulting)

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