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tracery

[ UK /tɹˈe‍ɪsəɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs

How To Use tracery In A Sentence

  • An almost seam free marble floor can be inlaid with tracery, borders, natural mosaics and other patterns in an infinite number of ways.
  • Some of the drawings, like stained-glass tracery, are studies for the paintings.
  • Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern. My Tropic Isle
  • Blandamer window, where in the centre of the infinite multiplication of the tracery shone the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat. The Nebuly Coat
  • The curtains are made of saris glittering with sequins a tracery of gold threads unfurling.
  • The heraldic devices of the lancet tops and in the tracery lights represent other of Louis's and Francoise's possessions and ancestors.
  • While the north aisle is later than the south, the clearstory, as has been said is earlier, being of late Decorated date with large three-light windows of reticulated tracery. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
  • The boss at the center of the vault, arranged as a decorative six-pointed star with cusped tracery, here provides the sculptural element.
  • The arch is topped by a large tracery rose and backed by a trough on the interior side (within the cloister walk) that probably once marked the entrance to the chapterhouse. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • Or is it like lacy fretwork - tracery bracket & buzz saw Many Morning
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