Usually means: Arched ceiling formed by intersections.
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  1. groin vault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. groin vault: Wiktionary
  3. groin vault: Dictionary.com
  4. Groin vault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. groin vault: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. groin vault: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Definitions from Wiktionary (groin vault)

noun:  (architecture) A vault resulting from the intersection of two barrel-vaults crossing in a right angle. Its thrusts are concentrated along the groins or arrises and eventually at the four corners

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