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Tracery

noun

Decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs.

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"Tracery" Quotes from Famous Books

... across the level tracery of the yews, under the suffused, mild light, it sent her, from its open windows and hospitably smoking chimneys, the look of some warm human presence, of a mind slowly ripened on a sunny wall of experience. She had never before had so deep a sense ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

... from my face was the muzzle of King Hiram, yellow with a tracery of black. The leopard was helping me to wake up; otherwise he took little interest, for he yawned; his dark red jaws, beautiful gleaming white fangs, ...

— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit

... perspective as seen from his vantage-point, and we were fortunate in hearing the sweet descant of nightingales for which this garden has ever been famous. As we stood silent and listening, a candle was lit in a small oriel at the end, and the light showing the tracery of the window added to ...

— The Lost Stradivarius • John Meade Falkner

... before all the voices, gathering into one harmony, sent the last versicle ringing through the arches of the choir, and the springing tracery of the feretory, and ...

— The Case of Richard Meynell • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... it is true, but look at the drawing of the figures," said his uncle, pointing to the tracery upon ...

— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 • Various

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