Definitions for traceries

traceries trac·er·y

Spelling: [trey-suh-ree]
IPA: /ˈtreɪ sə ri/

Traceries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 495 anagrams from letters in traceries (aceeirrst).

Definitions for traceries

noun

  1. ornamental work consisting of ramified ribs, bars, or the like, as in the upper part of a Gothic window, in panels, screens, etc.
  2. any delicate, interlacing work of lines, threads, etc., as in carving or embroidery; network.

Origin of traceries

late Middle English word dating back to 1425-75; See origin at trace1, -ery

Examples for traceries

The roof is battlemented, and the tracery in the windows is graceful.

It is of an octangular shape, and the outside is adorned by tracery work.

He described the tracery as the most beautiful in the county.

The lines of the tracery are lost, and one sees only spots of white.

The tracery is geometrical, and the shafts in the angles of the splays are banded.

Some of these elegant little pots are overlaid with a tracery of silver.

Against the blue sky a tracery of delicate green was showing.

They were evidently not wholly made for the tracery, though parts of them may have been.

In the tracery beneath, at the head of the mullion, was a statue.

Early windows had, of course, no tracery properly so called.

Word Value for traceries
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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