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plate tracery

noun

  1. tracery, as in early Gothic architecture, formed of cut or pierced slabs of stone set on edge with the flat side outward.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of plate tracery1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

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So long as the tracery preserves the simple character of piercings through a flat stone, filling the space between the window heads, it is known as plate tracery.

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The two windows at the north end of the great chamber are evidently later additions, as they have fully developed bar-tracery, while the other windows in the chamber consist of pairs of trefoil-headed windows with a quatrefoil in plate tracery above them.

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Where the tracery is formed by ornamental apertures pierced through a plate of stone, it is called plate tracery, and is certain to be of not later date than the earlier part of the 13th century.

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These contain beautiful examples of plate tracery windows.

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The windows are of plate tracery, and mark the transition between Early English and Decorated.

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