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travée

English translation: Bay

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French term or phrase:travée
English translation:Bay
Entered by: Massimo Gaido

00:05 Jun 6, 2002
French to English translations [PRO]
Architecture / architecture
French term or phrase: travée
une voûte à 5 travées (dans une église)
JCG
Bay
Explanation:
Ciao,
M.
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Massimo Gaido
United States
Local time: 14:51
Grading comment
Grazie mille
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1Bay
Massimo Gaido
4Case bay, bay or beam
Sarah Downing
4a five-beamed vault
vanyalucia


  

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Bay


Explanation:
Ciao,
M.

Massimo Gaido
United States
Local time: 14:51
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 3
Grading comment
Grazie mille

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: http://pws.prserv.net/usinet.sgparry/glossary.htm A bay is usually defined by one vaulting unit, so that a six-part vault would have two arches on the ground-floor arcade
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Case bay, bay or beam


Explanation:
I agree with the previous answerer, but wanted to add these options, gleaned from www.granddictionnaire.com

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5-bay or 5-beam vault - as it\'s a church, I think either would work, but I think bay is possibly better.

Sarah Downing
Local time: 15:51
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a five-beamed vault


Explanation:
I am not sure where bays would fit in a vault, more likely they would be downstairs in the nave (nef).

regards from Malta

vanyalucia
Malta
Local time: 21:51
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