tracery
IPA: trˈeɪsɝi
noun
- (architecture) Bars or ribs, usually of stone or wood, or other material, that subdivide an opening or stand in relief against a door or wall as an ornamental feature.
- (by extension) A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.
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Examples of "tracery" in Sentences
- Those scars had long ago become a part of her, a thin tracery of lines that spoke of a history, a past.
- Between this rib and the tracery is another rib springing on the north side from a bunch of foliage and on the south from a grotesque corbel.
- Those same lips that had been so insistent a few moments earlier were now like gossamer wings, making a kind of tracery over her smooth skin.
- The tracery of this window is in good preservation, and is one of the most favourable examples of a kind of tracery developed in Scotland during the fifteenth century.
- There, a sense of openness and light prevails, as towering French doors pierce the pale stone walls so that the intervening pilasters appear like delicate tracery between the broad expanses of glass.
- And should the roll of the “faithful” increase or diminish; should her fortunes ebb or flow; should the warm tracery of sunlight caress her face, or the cold darkness of night press her sore, He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
- Above these windows is a large rose window of "plate tracery" -- tracery, that is to say, in its earlier form, in which the openings for the glass appear to have been cut out of the stone rather than the stone to have been added as a frame for the glass.
- In the tracery are the evangelistic symbols and the four fathers of the Latin church -- St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine and St. Gregory; and in the window which divides the chantry from the Ante-chapel is to be seen the Annunciation, with, on the one side, St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, and St. Christopher with the infant Jesus; on the other, St. Anne with the
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