Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
fan-tracery .
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Examples
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There were the actors apparelled in the gorgeous costumes of old Cathay strutting mechanically through their parts, the female impersonators squeaking in shrill falsetto and putting in a lot of subtle fan-work.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 Various
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Here too the Gothic pendent and the Gothic fan-work were intermingled with the Italian arabesques, which, at the time of the building of the Château, had been recently introduced into
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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The interpretive pieces will also be accompanied by fan-work, which also happen to be available on the site.
Cinema Blend Feeds 2009
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They occur in forms the most beautiful and fantastic; here grouped beside some blind opening in the precipice, like pillars cut round the opening of a tomb, on some rock-front in Petræa; there running in long colonnades, or rising into tall porticoes; yonder radiating in straight lines from some common centre, resembling huge pieces of fan-work, or bending out in bold curves over some shaded chasm, like rows of crooked oaks projecting from the steep sides of some dark ravine.
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