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tracery|ˈtreɪsərɪ|
[app. an English formation f. trace v.1, or tracer1: see -ery.]
†1. A place for tracing or drawing: cf. tracing-house s.v. tracing vbl. n.1 5. Obs. rare—1.
1464Rolls of Parlt. V. 530/1 For the Mansions, Store⁓houses, Traceries, Voide places for framyng, longyng unto the said Office, within oure Palice of Westm'.
2. Arch. The term given to the intersecting rib-work in the upper part of a Gothic window, formed by the elaboration of the mullion, and to the interlaced work of a vault, and that on walls, in panels, and in tabernacle work or screens. (In Fr. réseau, remplissage.)
In this sense, app. short for tracery work, as according to S. Wren ‘they (i.e. the masons) called it’; this was perh. connected with sense 1 as work designed in the tracery or tracing-house, or executed according to tracings thence furnished; but it may have been formed directly from tracer1 or from trace v.1 senses 9–11; cf. tracing vbl. n.1 3. Tracery-work and tracery were constantly used by Sir Christopher Wren, and taken from him by Plot and Randle Holme, under whose influence it became generally accepted as the recognized name for this work.
bar-tracery, fan-tracery, flamboyant tracery, geometrical tracery, plate-tracery, wall tracery: see these words. stump tracery: see stump n.1 19.
1669Wren Surv. Salisbury Cath. in Parentalia (1750) 304 The whole Church is vaulted with Chalk between Arches and Cross-springers only,..without Orbs and Tracery, excepting under the Tower, where the Springers divide, and represent a wider Sort of Tracery. Ibid., The Windows are not made too great, nor yet the Light obstructed with many Mullions and Transomes of Tracery-work. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 360 The tracery in the Stone-work of the West-window..is a curious piece of Art. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 112 Trasery is the working of the top part of a Window into several forms and fashions. 1713Wren in Parentalia (1750) 302 The two West-towers..ought certainly to be carried to an equal Height, one Story above the Ridge of the Roof, still continuing the Gothick Manner in the Stone-work, and Tracery. 1750S. Wren ibid. 307 Thus they made their Pillars of a Bundle of little Torus's,..these Torus's split into many small ones, and traversing one another, gave Occasion to the Tracery-work (as they called it) of which this Society were the Inventors. Ibid., A great part of the Outside-ornament of Churches consisted in the Tracery Works of disposing the Mullions of the Windows, for the better fixing in of the Glass. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 5 (Westm. Abb.) The sharp touches of the chisel are gone from the rich tracery of the arches. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 277 Ancient buildings rich with the tracery of the middle ages. 1850Parker Gloss. Archit. 485 The tympanum..always retains the character of a flat surface or plate of stone pierced with openings. Hence this kind of tracery has been termed plate tracery by Professor Willis. a1878Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 127 The eastern chapels at Winchester, built about 1204..show suggestions of tracery. 1911R. P. Spiers in Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 115/1 The tracery in windows is usually divided into two sections, plate tracery and rib or bar tracery. Ibid. 116/1 The walls and buttresses were all panelled with blank tracery.
3. transf. and fig. Any delicate interweaving of lines or threads, as in embroidery, carving, etc.; also, an interlacing of boughs or foliage; network, open-work.
1827Hood Mids. Fairies lix, An elf..Whose coat..was quaintly wrought and overrun With spangled traceries. 1827Keble Chr. Y., Monday Whitsun Week, Wild-flower wreaths from side to side Their waving tracery hang. 1841Lever C. O'Malley lxvii, The thin tracery of the leafless twigs was finely marked.
4. attrib. and Comb., as tracery bar, tracery glass, tracery head (of a window), tracery light, tracery-window, tracery-work (see 2 above).
1835R. Willis Archit. Mid. Ages vi. 53 note, The vertical portions below the imposts of the small arches of the lights, are termed mullions; the bending and ramifying parts above, I have called tracery bars. Ibid. 62 Tracery windows of the lancet proportion are great favorites with the Italians. 1886Pall Mall G. 29 Sept. 11/2 The apse has four single-light windows high up in the wall with tracery heads. 1913Eden Anc. Glass 56 The task of the glass-painter was to fill tracery lights in a way that would harmonise with the glass of the main lights. This he did by making his tracery-glass white and yellow when the lower lights were wholly of that kind. |