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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

Nor were its sets especially assertive: Buckingham Palace and other locations were thinly suggested by some electric bulb tracery.

From New York Times Dec. 30, 2021

The tracery, all of which was cut from templates, was cemented into place along with iron reinforcing bars as the piers were being built.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

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

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2023

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

By carefully tailoring the radiation shone on their sample, the Vanderbilt team were able to create a photograph that shows the delicate traceries of tissue inside a mosquito's heart.

From The Guardian Oct. 23, 2010

The large east window is filled with modern glazing, only the upper half of the traceries above retaining the original red and blue diaper work.

From Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill




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