Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval architecture, a form of tracery in which the openings are cut or pierced in slabs of stone, as distinguished from ordinary tracery, which is constructed of assembled blocks.
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In its earlier forms it consisted merely of decorative openings, circles, and quatrefoils, pierced through slabs of stone (_plate-tracery_), filling the window-heads over coupled windows.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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The absence of ornate decoration, the simplicity of the mouldings, and the plate-tracery of the triforium all indicate the first period of "Early
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874
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