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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.
An almost seam free marble floor can be inlaid with tracery, borders, natural mosaics and other patterns in an infinite number of ways.
Closer study revealed that the exquisite curlicued tracery was actually steel-springed bars.
Its windows have geometric tracery in the Decorated style, with rebates for hinged shutters.
Margaret's shrinelike tomb canopy is almost hidden under carved foliage and tracery, with openwork rebuses, initials and ropework.
There are many more examples of this type of flamboyant ironwork tracery sufficient to indicate that the style was rooted in the Low Countries.

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