Definitions for tracery

tracery trac·er·y

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

Tracery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in tracery (acerrty).

Definitions for tracery

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 tracery

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

Examples for tracery

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for tracery
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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