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tracery n. 细纹构成之图样,花饰窗格,窗饰 细纹构成之图样,花饰窗格,窗饰 tracery n 1: decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribsTracery \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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.] 74 Moby Thesaurus words for " tracery": arabesque, arc, basketry, basketwork, bow, cancellation, catacaustic, catenary, caustic, circle, conchoid, crook, cross- hatching, crossing- out, curl, curve, diacaustic, ellipse, festoon, filigree, fret, fretwork, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, hachure, hatching, hook, hyperbola, interlacement, intertexture, intertwinement, lace, lacery, lacework, lacing, lattice, latticework, lituus, mesh, meshes, meshwork, net, netting, network, parabola, plexure, plexus, raddle, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, screen, screening, sieve, sinus, texture, tissue, trellis, trelliswork, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, wicker, wickerwork
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