curvilinear tracery

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noun Architecture.

tracery, especially of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by a pattern of irregular, boldly curved forms.

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Also called flowing tracery.

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The windows are ornamented by tracery, and the façade is enriched by a free use of carving.
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"Nothing," answered the Andalusian, his dreamy eye wandering over the marble tracery on the wall above.
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It was good to rest quietly and look upward into the dark tracery far overhead.
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Through the tracery of the lattice came the warm breeze, bearing the narcotic scent of those tropic gardens.
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In the starlight he could only see the tracery of the forest of palms, and here and there, ghost-like, a white dress flitting.
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