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What is a tracery?

What is a tracery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (architecture) bars or ribs, usually of stone or wood, or other material, that subdivide an opening or stand in relief against a door or wall as an ornamental feature.
  2. A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.
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All this glass almost certainly came from the east chancel window, in the tracery lights of which the Lovell arms were to be seen until recently.
These do not have openwork tracery on their hinges but have advanced to a distinctive new naturalistic style.
Its windows have geometric tracery in the Decorated style, with rebates for hinged shutters.
There are many more examples of this type of flamboyant ironwork tracery sufficient to indicate that the style was rooted in the Low Countries.
The heraldic devices of the lancet tops and in the tracery lights represent other of Louis's and Francoise's possessions and ancestors.
The boss at the center of the vault, arranged as a decorative six-pointed star with cusped tracery, here provides the sculptural element.

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