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FAN TRACERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fan tracery mean?
• FAN TRACERY (noun)
The noun FAN TRACERY has 1 sense:
1. the carved tracery on fan vaulting
Familiarity information: FAN TRACERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The carved tracery on fan vaulting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fan tracery" is a kind of...):
tracery (decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs)
Holonyms ("fan tracery" is a part of...):
fan vaulting (an elaborate system of vaulting in which the ribs diverge like fans)
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