Definition of "tracery" [tracery]

• Ornamental work of interlaced and branching lines, especially the lacy openwork in a Gothic window. (noun)

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• "Those scars had long ago become a part of her, a thin tracery of lines that spoke of a history, a past."
• "Between this rib and the tracery is another rib springing on the north side from a bunch of foliage and on the south from a grotesque corbel."
• "In the tracery are the evangelistic symbols and the four fathers of the Latin church -- St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine and St. Gregory; and in the window which divides the chantry from the Ante-chapel is to be seen the Annunciation, with, on the one side, St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, and St. Christopher with the infant Jesus; on the other, St. Anne with the"