tracery
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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
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
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
It was overlaid with a tracery of flowers and leaves wrought of silver and gold, and on it were set in elven-runes formed of many gems the name Andúril and the lineage of the sword.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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 traceries above them are grouped in pyramids of trefoil openings, similar to some in the Lady chapel at Wells.
From Stained Glass Tours in England by Charles Hitchcock Sherrill
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