tracery
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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
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
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
The shifting facade mixed the ornate tracery of Gothic cathedrals, the slit windows and bulky turrets of Scottish castles, and the heart and plant shaped openings that are all Mackintosh.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2018
But on the second level—at a considerable height—were four huge windows side by side, with pillars and stone tracery.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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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