tracery.

An ornamental branching framework, especially of stone or wood in a window or screen.

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Words that belong together

• window tracery
• stone tracery

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The window tracery divided the pale light into narrow shapes.

A missing section interrupted the symmetry of the stone tracery.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: precise built-space description, structural component naming, spatial orientation, interior material description. Disciplines: fiction writing, architectural description, advanced descriptive English. Commonness: moderately common.