tracery
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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
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 organized the museum around a grand atrium, roofed by a tracery of pyramid-shaped skylights that created a lively play of sun and shadow.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2019
The tracery of the rose window for the front of the cathedral was carefully cut according to the plans.
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
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
Farrington was following the finger of the master mechanic, as it moved along over the traceries of white and red ink that crisscrossed the blue print.
From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen
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