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tracery::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | decoration, ornament, ornamentation |
| Has types | fan tracery |
Examples of tracery
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The tracery is of the very finest, chiefly gilt on backgrounds of diapered gesso.
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Curvilinear tracery is a form of tracery where the patterns are continuous curves.
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Even puffs of low cloud looked like black holes superimposed on the golden tracery.
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The windows between have simple curvilinear tracery dividing two main lights.
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Lead archaeologist Richard Buckley with a piece of tracery that once held a window.
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The intricate tracery of tracks in Thin Paths serves both as geography and metaphor.
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Later Romanesque churches may have wheel windows or rose windows with plate tracery.
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A fine, decorative tracery of chocolate icing was piped on to the surface.
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Strictly speaking, the lancet window should be austere and without tracery.
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- Decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs
- Tracery is an architectural term used primarily to describe the stonework elements that support the glass in a Gothic window. The term probably derives from the 'tracing floors' on which the complex patterns of late Gothic windows were laid out.
- The geometrical architectural ornamentation which is used in Gothic architecture to subdivide the upper parts of the arches belonging to large windows, and later to subdivide gable ends, walls, and other surfaces.
- The thin stone or wooden bars in a Gothic window, screen, or pannel, which create an elaborate decorative matrix or pattern.
- Ornamental intersecting stonework used to support the glass.
- An ornamental configuration of curved mullions in a Gothic sash.
- Geometrically constructed building ornament such as a foil found in the upper part of Gothic rose windows (fig.2, C). This type of stonework decoration became more complex during the High Gothic and Flamboyant phase.
- Decorative intersecting glazing bars in the upper portion of a window; most common in Gothic Revival styles. (IMAGE)
- Curving bars which form a decorative shape, within a Gothic window.
