tracery

• In the ruined cloisters the tracery is of the most delicate description, foliage of trees and vegetables being carved on them. —  My Life as an Author
• The architecture is in the Decorated style with reticulated tracery, as restored on the ancient model. —  Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See
• The bald islet yonder, with a surface as smooth as glass and with delicate tracery along its polished sides--tracery that looks like etching upon glass,--was modelled by glaciers not so many years ago: within the century, some of them, perhaps. —  Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
• We see in the illustration the hanging pendants of the stone roof known as fan tracery, and the walls are covered with statues, the space between them filled up by Tudor roses, French fleur-de-lis, and other appropriate decorations. —  Westminster Abbey
• The delicate carving of the cusps and other tracery is varied throughout. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See

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