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tracery

[trey-suh-ree] / ˈtreɪ sə ri /








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“First Star of the Night” is one of several tracks with meter shifts and guitar tracery that give it a slightly jazzy edge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 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

Clues in the remaining buildings reveal it had corner turrets and a great hall accessed via an impressive doorway and illuminated by tracery windows.

From BBC May 1, 2022

The shifting facade mixed the ornate tracery of Gothic cathedrals, the slit windows and bulky turrets of Scottish castles, and the heart and plant shaped openings that are all Mackintosh.

From New York Times Jul. 2, 2018

He found Kehaar just inside the trees, snapping and tearing with his great beak at a foul-smelling piece of flaking brown flesh which seemed to be hanging from a tracery of bones.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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 interior of the church is of unusual richness and beauty, abounding in delicate detail—recessed altar-tombs, richly-carved sedilia, arched vaults, graceful mouldings, and the window traceries are very pure and lovely.

From The Charm of Ireland by Burton Egbert Stevenson




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