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tracery

[trey-suh-ree] / ˈtreɪ sə ri /








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“First Star of the Night” is one of several tracks with meter shifts and guitar tracery that give it a slightly jazzy edge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

The masons have now moved on to the North Cloisters, where they will spend the next four years restoring elaborately carved tracery and Purbeck columns, bases and capitals that have split.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2023

Yet, his exquisite graphite drawing positions a viewer behind an iron railing decorated with the elegant tracery of the king’s monogram.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2023

Most of the external walls of the 250-foot-long, 150-foot-wide church still stand, along with its exquisite window tracery and outlines of the sacristy, chapter house and dining hall.

From Seattle Times Feb. 13, 2018

It was overlaid with a tracery of flowers and leaves wrought of silver and gold, and on it were set in elven-runes formed of many gems the name Andúril and the lineage of the sword.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The spots begin to move, and slip-sliding traceries of luminosity explode.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2023

Early on the Day before Christmas, thin, white clouds seemed to create lacy traceries as they crisscrossed a sky of pure blue.

From Washington Post Dec. 24, 2021

Full of linear traceries, they came foremost from his widow, the painter Lee Krasner, and help measure her growing artistic independence.

From New York Times Dec. 31, 2015

Charles Emerson's oil-on-canvas "Trajectory of Angels" evokes the essence rather than specifics of angelic beings making fiery, ethereal traceries across a backdrop of autumnal colors.

From Seattle Times Nov. 2, 2012

Much of the lightness of the effect of the traceries is owing to this seemingly unimportant arrangement.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin




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