tracery – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
tracery
n.
ornament, embellishment
Tracery
In architecture,
tracery is the stonework elements that support the glass in a
Gothic window. The term probably derives from the 'tracing floors' on which the complex patterns of late Gothic windows were laid out. There are two main types,
plate tracery and the later
bar tracery.
tracery
Noun
1. decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs
(hypernym) decoration, ornament, ornamentation
(hyponym) fan tracery
tracery
n.
kružba
Tracery
(n.)
The decorative head of a Gothic window.
(n.)
Ornamental work with rambled lines.
(n.)
A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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