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vaulted

[ vawl-tid ]

adjective

  1. constructed or covered with a vault, as a building or chamber.
  2. provided with a vault.
  3. resembling a vault:

    the vaulted sky.



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Other Words From

  • under·vaulted adjective
  • un·vaulted adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of vaulted1

First recorded in 1525–35; vault 1 + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

Entering the theater brings visitors to an ornate lobby with vaulted ceilings, golden walls, and an enormous chandelier.

The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.

But how many of us, thus sunk in despair, have not been vaulted back to equilibrium by another look at Groundhog Day?

He was a Rorschach test, vaulted into the presidency by positive perceptions and unrealistic expectations.

The people faded away, the arches, the vaulted roof vanished.

The light which discovered its dismal bounds to his solitary eyes, came from a small grated aperture in the vaulted roof.

Black Hood vaulted into the roadster without bothering to open the door.

Some arcading; a vaulted passage; fragments of Early English mouldings: these are all.

Scott's tomb, that of his wife and their eldest son are in one of the chapels whose vaulted roof still remains in position.

Further to the east, as we shall find in due course, may be seen the low vaulted retro-choir or ambulatory of one bay.

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