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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tracery \Tra"cer/y\, n.; pl. {Traceries} (Arch.)
     1. Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially:
        (a) The decorative head of a Gothic window.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Window tracery is of two sorts, plate tracery and bar


           tracery. Plate tracery, common in Italy, consists of a
           series of ornamental patterns cut through a flat plate
           of stone. Bar tracery is a decorative pattern formed by
           the curves and intersections of the molded bars of the
           mullions. Window tracery is imitated in many decorative
           objects, as panels of wood or metal either pierced or
           in relief. See also Stump tracery under {Stump}, and
           Fan tracery under {Fan}.
           [1913 Webster]
        (b) A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the
            ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which
            the tracery is composed.
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     2. A tracing of lines; a system of lines produced by, or as
        if by, tracing, esp. when interweaving or branching out in
        ornamental or graceful figures. "Knit with curious
        tracery." --Burns.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

















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