01 n. Ornamental work with rambled lines.
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Ornamental work with rambled lines.(Arch.)
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A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.
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A tracing of lines; a system of lines produced by, or as if by, tracing, esp. when interweaving or branching out in ornamental or graceful figures.