TRACERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tracery mean? 

• TRACERY (noun)
  The noun TRACERY has 1 sense:

1. decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs

  Familiarity information: TRACERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRACERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tracery" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tracery"):

fan tracery (the carved tracery on fan vaulting)

 Context examples 

Outlined against the clear blue of the sky, he had the appearance of an enormous spider crawling along the tracery of its web.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The sun shining slantwise through the trees threw delicate traceries across the road, with bars of golden light between.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Priory at Christchurch was a noble pile, but it was cold and bare, methinks, by one of these, with their frettings, and their carvings, and their traceries, as though some great ivy-plant of stone had curled and wantoned over the walls.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She no longer wore her gay riding-dress, however, but was attired in a long sweeping robe of black velvet of Bruges, with delicate tracery of white lace at neck and at wrist, scarce to be seen against her ivory skin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)