tracery : Idioms & Phrases

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Bar tracery

  • (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required.
Webster 1913

Fan tracery

  • noun the carved tracery on fan vaulting
WordNet
  • (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting.
Webster 1913

Geometrical tracery

  • in architecture and decoration, tracery arranged in geometrical figures.
Webster 1913

Plate tracery

  • . (Arch.) See under Tracery.
Webster 1913

Stump tracery

  • (Arch.), a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump.
Webster 1913