tracery
Archit a pattern of interlacing ribs, esp as used in the upper part of a Gothic window, etc.
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Tracery
The curvilinear ornamental branch-like shapes of stone or wood, creating an openwork pattern of mullions; so treated as to be ornamental; found within the upper part of a Gothic window or opening of similar character.
bar tracery
A pattern formed by inter-locking branching mullions within the arch of Gothic window tracery.
blind tracery
Any tracery that is not pierced through.
branch tracery
A form of Gothic tracery in Germany in the late 15th and early 16th century made to imitate rustic work with boughs and knots.
fan tracery
A tracery on the soffit of a vault whose ribs radiate like the ribs of a fan.
geometric tracery
Gothic tracery characterized by a pattern of geometric shapes, as circles and foils.
intersecting tracery
Any tracery formed by the upward curving, forking and continuation of the mullions, springing from alternate mullions or from every third mullion and intersecting each other.
panel tracery
Gothic style window tracery in sections within a large opening.
perpendicular tracery
Tracery of the Perpendicular style with repeated perpendicular mullions, crossed at intervals by horizontal transoms, producing repeated vertical rectangles which often rise to the full curve of the arch.
plate tracery
Tracery whose openings are pierced through thin slabs of stone.
reticulated tracery
Gothic tracery consisting mainly of a net-like arrangement of repeated geometrical figures.
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