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
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
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 shifting facade mixed the ornate tracery of Gothic cathedrals, the slit windows and bulky turrets of Scottish castles, and the heart and plant shaped openings that are all Mackintosh.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2018
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
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