Usually means: Arched ceiling with intersecting ribs.
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  1. ribbed vault: Merriam-Webster
  2. ribbed vault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. ribbed vault: Vocabulary.com
  4. ribbed vault: Wordnik
  5. ribbed vault: Wiktionary
  6. ribbed vault: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Ribbed vault, ribbed vault: Dictionary.com
  8. Ribbed vault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. ribbed vault: Rhymezone
  10. ribbed vault: FreeDictionary.org
  11. ribbed vault: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. ribbed vault: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ribbed vault: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

(Note: See ribbed_vaulting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ribbed vault)

noun:  (architecture) A building structure created by an intersection of two or three vaults.

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