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tracery

[tray-suh-ree] / ˈtreɪ sə ri /








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Among them are working drawings that prescribe the profile of every block of stone, each keyed to its exact place in the building, whether gable, tracery or buttress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

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

Clues in the remaining buildings reveal it had corner turrets and a great hall accessed via an impressive doorway and illuminated by tracery windows.

From BBC ● May 1, 2022

He organized the museum around a grand atrium, roofed by a tracery of pyramid-shaped skylights that created a lively play of sun and shadow.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2019

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

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

By carefully tailoring the radiation shone on their sample, the Vanderbilt team were able to create a photograph that shows the delicate traceries of tissue inside a mosquito's heart.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2010

The figures on the north of the clerestory represent Roman emperors, and above in the traceries are little devils on a red ground.

From Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill


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