tracery

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

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

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 interior is what I’d call “Victorian futurist”: glazed brick and tracery wrought-iron staircases and balustrades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

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

"Its flamboyant traceries of the last and most degraded forms."

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin