noun
an elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans
• Hypernyms: ↑vaulting
• Part Meronyms: ↑fan tracery
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noun : an elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan and that was used especially in the latest English Gothic architecture
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a system of fan vaults.
[1795-1805]
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fan tracery or fan vaulting noun (architecture)
Tracery rising from a capital or a corbel, and diverging like the folds of a fan over the surface of a vault
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Main Entry: ↑fan
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fan vaulting,
Architecture. fan vaults collectively; vaulting in which the ribs flare out like a fan.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.