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tracery


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tracery  \Tra"cer*y\,  n. 
  A  tracing  of  lines;  a  system  of  lines  produced  by  or  as  if 
  by  tracing,  esp.  when  interweaving  or  branching  out  in 
  ornamental  or  graceful  figures.  ``Knit  with  curious 
  tracery.''  --Burns. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tracery  \Tra"cer/y\,  n.;  pl  {Traceries}  (Arch.) 
  Ornamental  work  with  rambled  lines.  Especially: 
  a  The  decorative  head  of  a  Gothic  window. 
 
  Note:  Window  tracery  is  of  two  sorts,  plate  tracery  and  bar 
  tracery.  Plate  tracery,  common  in  Italy,  consists  of  a 
  series  of  ornamental  patterns  cut  through  a  flat  plate 
  of  stone.  Bar  tracery  is  a  decorative  pattern  formed  by 
  the  curves  and  intersections  of  the  molded  bars  of  the 
  mullions.  Window  tracery  is  imitated  in  many  decorative 
  objects,  as  panels  of  wood  or  metal  either  pierced  or 
  in  relief.  See  also  Stump  tracery  under  {Stump},  and 
  Fan  tracery  under  {Fan}. 
  b  A  similar  decoration  in  some  styles  of  vaulting,  the  ribs 
  of  the  vault  giving  off  the  minor  bars  of  which  the 
  tracery  is  composed. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tracery 
  n  :  an  open  pattern  of  interlacing  ribs 




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