单词 | tracery |
释义 | traceryn.ΚΠ 1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 530/1 For the Mansions, Store~houses, Traceries, Voide places for framyng, longyng unto the said Office, within oure Palice of Westm'. 2. Architecture. The term given to the intersecting rib-work in the upper part of a Gothic window, formed by the elaboration of the mullion, and to the interlaced work of a vault, and that on walls, in panels, and in tabernacle work or screens. (In French réseau, remplissage.)In this sense, apparently short for tracery-work at Compounds, as according to S. Wren ‘they (i.e. the masons) called it’; this was perhaps connected with sense 1 as work designed in the tracery or tracing-house, or executed according to tracings thence furnished; but it may have been formed directly from tracer n.1 or from trace v.1 9 – 11; cf. tracing n. 3.Tracery-work and tracery were constantly used by Sir Christopher Wren, and taken from him by Plot and Randle Holme, under whose influence it became generally accepted as the recognized name for this work. bar-tracery, fan-tracery, flamboyant tracery, geometrical tracery, plate-tracery, wall tracery: see these words. stump tracery: see stump tracery n. at stump n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > tracery tracery1669 tabernacle-work1774 filigree-work1790 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > tracery > types of stump tracery1835 wheel1835 geometrical tracery1849 plate tracery1850 fanning1851 bar-tracery1861 wheel-tracery1913 mouchette1927 1669 C. Wren Surv. Salisbury Cathedral in Parentalia (1750) 304 The whole Church is vaulted with Chalk between Arches and Cross-springers only,..without Orbs and Tracery, excepting under the Tower, where the Springers divide, and represent a wider Sort of Tracery. 1669 C. Wren Surv. Salisbury Cathedral in Parentalia (1750) 304 The Windows are not made too great, nor yet the Light obstructed with many Mullions and Transomes of Tracery-work. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 360 The tracery in the Stone-work of the West-window..is a curious piece of Art. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 112 Trasery is the working of the top part of a Window into several forms and fashions. 1713 C. Wren in Parentalia (1750) 302 The two West-towers..ought certainly to be carried to an equal Height, one Story above the Ridge of the Roof, still continuing the Gothick Manner in the Stone-work, and Tracery. 1750 S. Wren in Parentalia (1750) 307 Thus they made their Pillars of a Bundle of little Torus's,..these Torus's split into many small ones, and traversing one another, gave Occasion to the Tracery-work (as they called it) of which this Society were the Inventors. 1750 S. Wren in Parentalia (1750) 307 A great part of the Outside-ornament of Churches consisted in the Tracery Works of disposing the Mullions of the Windows, for the better fixing in of the Glass. 1820 W. Irving Westm. Abbey in Sketch Bk. vii. 7 The sharp touches of the chisel are gone from the rich tracery of the arches. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 277 Ancient buildings rich with the tracery of the middle ages. 1850 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 5) I. 485 The tympanum..always retains the character of a flat surface or plate of stone pierced with openings. Hence this kind of tracery has been termed plate tracery by Professor Willis. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 127 The eastern chapels at Winchester, built about 1204..show suggestions of tracery. 1911 R. P. Spiers in Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 115/1 The tracery in windows is usually divided into two sections, plate tracery and rib or bar tracery. 1911 R. P. Spiers in Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 116/1 The walls and buttresses were all panelled with blank tracery. 3. transferred and figurative. Any delicate interweaving of lines or threads, as in embroidery, carving, etc.; also, an interlacing of boughs or foliage; network, open-work. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > openwork > [noun] openwork1583 lacework1675 tracery1827 lacery1847 honeycomb1924 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > designs or patterns imagerya1393 imagery work1500 roundel1546 essefirme1600 branch1606 rundlet1672 veining1814 tracery1827 crow's foot1830 Berlin pattern1841 Venetian bar1882 wheatear1882 wheel1903 1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies lix, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 30 An elf..Whose coat..was so quaintly wrought, and overrun With spangled traceries. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xlviii. 188 Wild-flower wreaths from side to side Their waving tracery hang. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley lxvii The thin tracery of the leafless twigs was finely marked. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 498/2 Honiton Pillow Lace making is often enriched with Tracery, which is a kind of raised work, formed over a background of Cloth and Half Stitch. Compounds General attributive, as tracery bar, tracery glass, tracery head (of a window), tracery light, tracery-window, tracery-work (see sense 2). ΚΠ 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vi. 53 (note) The vertical portions below the imposts of the small arches of the lights, are termed mullions; the bending and ramifying parts above, I have called tracery bars. 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vi. 62 Tracery windows of the lancet proportion are great favorites with the Italians. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 11/2 The apse has four single-light windows high up in the wall with tracery heads. 1913 F. S. Eden Anc. Glass 56 The task of the glass-painter was to fill tracery lights in a way that would harmonise with the glass of the main lights. This he did by making his tracery-glass white and yellow when the lower lights were wholly of that kind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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