tracery
Example Sentences
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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
The masons have now moved on to the North Cloisters, where they will spend the next four years restoring elaborately carved tracery and Purbeck columns, bases and capitals that have split.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2023
The interior is what I’d call “Victorian futurist”: glazed brick and tracery wrought-iron staircases and balustrades.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
Original tracery patterns made of thin strips of molding decorate the ceilings, with lattice in the living room and a chevron pattern in the dining room, which has a bow window.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2017
A tracery of snow lay on the fields and in the yard, but it was not true winter yet.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
