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tracery

[tray-suh-ree] / ˈtreɪ sə ri /








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According to Sotheby's, the piece contains 94 cities inscribed within it, each marked with their respective longitudes and latitudes, along with 38 star pointers linked by intricate floral tracery.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

Amid this gentle drama, Jewett depicts the marshland, where “the lines of the creeks made a broad tracery whichever way one looked.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Yet, his exquisite graphite drawing positions a viewer behind an iron railing decorated with the elegant tracery of the king’s monogram.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

In front of the new hedge, a simple 9-foot arbor, also stained a dark color, supports Clematis armandii, providing an evergreen tracery of foliage that’s smothered with fragrant white blooms in early spring.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2023

But on the second level—at a considerable height—were four huge windows side by side, with pillars and stone tracery.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

The spots begin to move, and slip-sliding traceries of luminosity explode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

Early on the Day before Christmas, thin, white clouds seemed to create lacy traceries as they crisscrossed a sky of pure blue.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2021

Full of linear traceries, they came foremost from his widow, the painter Lee Krasner, and help measure her growing artistic independence.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2015

Charles Emerson's oil-on-canvas "Trajectory of Angels" evokes the essence rather than specifics of angelic beings making fiery, ethereal traceries across a backdrop of autumnal colors.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2012

The tracery lights are glazed in red, with white winding vines, and are remarkably like the traceries at Tewkesbury.

From Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill


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