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tracery

 noun
     
Related topics: Architecture
trac‧e‧ry plural traceries [uncountable and countable]
1 technicalAA the curving and crossing lines of stone in the upper parts of some church windows
2 literary an attractive pattern of lines that cross each other:
the delicate tracery of the bare branches against the sky
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