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tracery

[ UK /tɹˈe‍ɪsəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs

How To Use tracery In A Sentence

  • In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
  • The inner timber tracery is carried by the steel structure and will flex with the steel stems.
  • Scoring whitely their tracery of intricate lines, the groups go by in whorls, in angles, in sweeping circles, and the ice shrinks beneath them; here a fairy couple slide along, waving and bowing and swinging together; far away some recluse in his pleasure sports alone with folded arms, careening in the outward roll like the mast of a phantom-craft; everywhere inshore clusters of ruddy-cheeked boys race headlong with their hawkey-sticks, and with their wild cries, making benders where the ice surges in a long swell: and constantly in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
  • Over the skin was a delicate tracery of black tattooing, marred by a badly healed wound that ran diagonally across the face.
  • The eastern window of five lights is a singular combination of tracery with tabernacle work, while the easternmost bay on the south side, which is partly obscured by the vestry, has an exquisite window above, consisting of a richly traceried arch placed within a curvilinear triangle, beneath which is a splendid range of niches, and, beneath them again, a gorgeous range of sedilia and piscinae." [ Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey
  • The surface is suggestive: imagine crumpling a canvas, smoothing it out and then using the tracery of creases to define areas within the final work.
  • There is no denying that Jackson, half in shadow,, half in light, her unbound hair appearing as a delicate tracery of light itself around her face, serves as a fitting frontispiece for the catalog.
  • This was costly to construct, flamboyant, and characterized by ogee arches, flowing and inventive window tracery, and lighter vaulting.
  • In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.
  • Anna tried to keep her gaze on the windows, the tracery of trees and sunlight beyond. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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