volta
English translation: vaults
| 04:40 Dec 7, 2001 |
| Italian to English translations [PRO] Architecture / architecture | ||||
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|  Selected response from: Catherine Bolton Local time: 03:06 | |||
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| 5 | vaults |
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| 4 +1 | brick arches? |
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10 mins confidence: 
vaults Explanation: Not sure really what you're after. A vault's a vault. According to Penguin's Dict. of Building: valut: a masonry floor or roof, in the form of an arch but usually wider. |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1brick arches? Explanation: A little hard to imagine this building but maybe the stone steps are mounted on, supported by brick arches? weird things you find out about when remodeling houses |
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12 mins confidence:
further to vaults Explanation: Penguin's Dict. of Architecture calls a vault "an arched ceiling or roof of stone, brick or concrete, sometimes imitated in wood or plaster". The term alone already implies a ceiling. |
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