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tracerytrac‧e‧ry /ˈtreɪsəri/ noun (plural traceries) [countable, uncountable] - Ahead of me was a chancel screen, a filigree of Gothic tracery.
- Sometimes brick tracery was used, sometimes the small quantity of stone needed was found for important buildings.
- The meat is marbled by a thick tracery of finer fat.
- The rose designs were divided by tracery into geometrical and flowing shapes, instead of the radiating wheel spokes used before.
- There were clusters of airy palms, sculptured portals, tracery windows.
- Windows are larger, stained glass richer, tracery more complex.
- Windows in the later period were very large and had ornate geometric or curvilinear tracery.
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