tracery
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According to Sotheby's, the piece contains 94 cities inscribed within it, each marked with their respective longitudes and latitudes, along with 38 star pointers linked by intricate floral tracery.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
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
The interior is what I’d call “Victorian futurist”: glazed brick and tracery wrought-iron staircases and balustrades.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
Nor were its sets especially assertive: Buckingham Palace and other locations were thinly suggested by some electric bulb tracery.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2021
Finally, inside the gatehouse, there was a neat little hole in the middle of the vaulted ceiling, which had painted tracery and basses.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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