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rectilinear tracery

perpendicular tracery, rectilinear tracery

perpendicular tracery
Tracery of the Perpendicular style with repeated perpendicular mullions often rising to the curve of the arch, the mullions crossed at intervals by horizontal transoms producing repeated vertical rectangles.
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