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- Dictionarytracery/ˈtreɪs(ə)ri/
noun
- 1. ornamental stone openwork, typically in the upper part of a Gothic window: "the rose designs were divided by tracery"
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Tracery is an architectural device by which windows are divided into sections of various proportions by stone bars or ribs of moulding. Most commonly, it refers to the stonework elements that support the glass in a window. The purpose of the device is practical as well as decorative, because the increasingly large windows of Gothic buildings needed maximum support against the wind. The term probab... Wikipedia
