Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: vaulted
IPA transcription: [v'ɔltɪd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: domed, vaulted
    Meaning: having a hemispherical vault or dome
Usage examples
  • The purple vaulted night
  • The young man opened the door of adamant and entered the first of the vaulted rooms.
  • He led him from this room to another--like it vaulted, and like it lit by a carbuncle set in the dome of the roof above.
  • At intervals, under this natural shelter, there spread out vaulted entrances in beautiful curves, into which the waves came dashing with foam and spray.
  • At the opening it had been contracted and narrow; but here it might have expanded itself to miles, and its vaulted top might reach almost to the summit of the lofty mountains.
  • He led the way and the young man followed; they passed through the vaulted rooms and out through the door of adamant, and Zadok locked it behind them and gave the key to the young man.
  • The Dauphin John turned pale with fright, and Count William of Holland, calling out, "Down, Ajax! back, girl, back!" sprang to his feet as if he would have vaulted over the gallery rail.
  • We did, however, at length reach a long vaulted room, floored with stone, where a range of oaken tables, of a weight and size too massive ever to be moved aside, were already covered for dinner.
  • As he was very hot with hunting, she took him into the coolest place in the palace, which was a vaulted cave, most elegantly furnished, where there were two hundred barrels arranged in long rows.
  • Her cloister of vaulted passages enables her to proceed to any point of the star-shaped pouch containing the eggs. Indefatigable in her rounds, she stops here and there; she fondly feels the satin, listens to the secrets of the wallet.