reticulated tracery

American  

noun

Architecture.

1. tracery consisting in large part of a netlike arrangement of repeated geometrical figures.

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Etymology

Origin of reticulated tracery

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

The stage above has tall square-headed windows, with reticulated tracery in the heads of cusped circles or quatrefoils, and two lights below with central colonnette.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

The architecture is in the Decorated style with reticulated tracery, as restored on the ancient model.

From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George

While the north aisle is later than the south, the clearstory, as has been said is earlier, being of late Decorated date with large three-light windows of reticulated tracery.

From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Woodhouse, Frederick W.

A room in the first floor, with a window of reticulated tracery, is believed to have been the chapel.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.

On the east side the roof now cuts across the head of a window of reticulated tracery of the early fourteenth century.

From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Woodhouse, Frederick W.