groin

Examples

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• The lower level of this structure consists of a triple-bay porch, with quadripartite groin vaults springing from a series of broad, round arches that open out toward the nave.

  Academic text (2000)

• This device obviously required a square plan below, whereas a traditional groin or rib vault could cover a rectangular space of virtually any proportions.

  Academic text (2015)

• The smuggler tried for the other man's groin and failed to connect.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Perhaps it gives pictorial expression to a verbal term such as that of the "groin vault."

  Academic text (2002)

• There are hand arches, back arches, groin arches.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The geometry is simple: triangles for the groin, partially bisected by the short lines of the vulvae.

  Fiction book (2000)

• He had never seen another like it; its silver petals curved upward and together like the groin of an old church and then unfurled outward.

  Fiction book (1993)

• She shakes and shouts, whoops out loud as she heaves her groin in thunderous counterpoint to the bass player's thumping rhythms.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The cathedral features an impressive groin vault that showcases the skill of its builders.

• As we walked through the ancient ruins, I admired the intricate design of the groin arches above us.

Compounds

T

tender groin

7.0

A painful area where the leg meets the lower belly, often from a strain or injury

Surface Forms

Etymology