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tracery (iou)



tracery noun. LME.
[from TRACE verb1 or TRACER noun1: see -ERY.]
A place for tracing or drawing. rare. Only in LME.
Architecture. Ornamentation in the upper part of a Gothic window, consisting of a perforated design or of an intersecting pattern formed by the elaboration of the mullions; the interlaced work of a vault, panel, etc. M17.
bar tracery: in which the mullions are elaborated into simple intersecting bars. plate tracery: see PLATE noun.
Any delicate interweaving of lines or threads; an interlacing of foliage etc.; openwork. E19.
traceried adjective ornamented with or characterized by tracery M19.