The distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
Then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— an arched structure of masonry usually forming a ceiling or roof
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Macmillan
— to jump over something, especially using your hands or a pole to support you
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Collins
— A vault is a secure room where money and other valuable things can be kept safely.
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Other Word Forms
vaulted
vaulting
vaults
Usage
2 uses of ‘vault’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster