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"vaulting ambition"adjectiverevealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights
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nouna light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
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"arches and vaulting"noun(architecture) a vaulted structuretype of:
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- buck a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- pole a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
- gothic a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
- perpendicular a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
- vaulting horse a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- english-gothic architecture a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
- long fly a gymnastic exercise involving a long leap from a vaulting horse
- fan tracery the carved tracery on fan vaulting
- long horse a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- fan vaulting an elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans