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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A roof having (as seen from within) the general shape of a cradle-vault, wagon-vault, or tunnel-vault: always a construction of light materials, not of masonry. It is usually built with wooden ribs bent or cut to the curve and boarded up.
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An almost perfect cradle-roof, tunnel-like from end to end of the long central aisle, adds by its simplicity of form to the magnificent unity of effect.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Walter Pater 1866
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