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lierne
[ lee-urn ]
noun
- an ornamental vaulting rib other than one springing from a pier or a ridge rib.
lierne
/ ɪˈɜː /
noun
- architect a short secondary rib that connects the intersections of the primary ribs, esp as used in Gothic vaulting
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lierne1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lierne1
Example Sentences
It is divided into two bays, each covered with a vault formed of eight ribs crossing each other at the centre, and decorated by two lierne ribs in each of the four quarters.
They 401 are very similar in their character, their columns are formed by the prolongation of the reedy mouldings of the arches, their window traceries are poorly designed, and their roofs are covered with a complex multitude of lierne ribs.
Vaulting with intermediate ribs, ridge ribs, and late in the style lierne ribs, and bosses.
No. 5 represents a vault with lierne ribs making a star-shaped pallom on plan, and No. 6 is a somewhat more intricate example of the same class of vault.
One misses the logical simplicity of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and is reminded of the decadent surfacing of late German work and the ogee, lierne ribs of some of the late English, in which the true ridges can no longer be distinguished from the false.
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