flowing tracery
flowing tracery, curvilinear tracery, undulating tracery
flowing tracery: Little St. Mary's, Cambridge (c. 1350)
Tracery in which continuous curvilinear patterns (largely ogees) dominate. A characteristic feature of the Decorated and Flamboyant styles.
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The floor's a mess: remnants of
flowing tracery, shards of leaded panes from the windows lancet and rose, long replaced or walled up due to heating costs; pews' rubble heaped to the side, seating's splinters, scrapped immature limbs--for use in stoking the furnace.
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