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

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reticulated tracery

In the central bay, and in the two next but one on either side of it, and so filling nine openings, is what at first seems to be a kind of reticulated tracery.

From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson

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 George Worley

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

From Somerset by G. W. Wade

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 Frederick W. Woodhouse

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 Frederick W. Woodhouse

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