Groined

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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of groin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Built with groins.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In architecture, having groins; showing the curved lines resulting from the intersection of two semicylinders or arches. See cut under groin.
  • Word Usage
    "The room in which Queen Bimbane received me was a superb apartment, magnificently decorated with elaborately carved columns supporting a kind of groined roof, the walls being draped with splendid tapestry worked on silk in gold thread, and hung with several enormous mirrors of polished silver in massive gold frames -- brackets supporting clusters of lamps on either side of each."
    Cross Reference
    Verb Stem
    groin   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    coined    conjoined    enjoined    joined    purloined