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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

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

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

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

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

It proved to be a small chapel, half in ruins; the door was time-stained and barred with iron; the window glass was gone; only the delicate wooden traceries of the frame were intact.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller




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