- arc: A division or foil of a trefoil, quatrefoil, cinquefoil, or multi-foil arch. 2. An arch. 3. Any part of the circumference of a circle.
- arched tracery: Ornamental work with an arched form.
- bar tracery: A pattern formed by interlocking bars of stone within the arch of a Gothic window.
- bar-tracery: A pattern formed by interlocking bars of stone within the arch of a Gothic window.
- blind tracery: Tracery adorning a wall or panel but not pierced through.
- branch tracery: A form of Gothic tracery in Germany in late 15th and early 16th century; made to imitate rustic work with boughs and knots.
- cinquefoil: A frame, usually for glass or panel, having five sides breaking out in arcs of a circle.
- cross quarters: A cross-shaped ornamental flower in tracery.
- Curvilinear: See tracery.
- curvilinear tracery: Tracery in which continuous, curvilinear patterns (largely ogees) dominate. A characteristic feature of the Decorated and Flamboyant styles.
- cusp: A pointed projection formed by two intersecting arcs, used especially to vary the outlines of intradoses or to form foils. 2. A point where two branches of curve meet, end, and are tangent.
- cuspidal: Formed like a cusp; terminating in a cusp; resembling or pertaining to a cusp.
- cuspidate: To furnish with a cusp or cusps; to make in the form of a cusp or cusps.
- cuspidation: A system of ornamentation consisting of or containing cusps.
- cusps: A pointed projection formed by two intersecting arcs, used especially to vary the outlines of intradoses or to form foils.
- dagger: A small Decorated tracery motif in the form of a distorted cusped lancet, with the foot pointed; a pointed oval-shaped opening in the tracery.
- drop tracery: Tracery hanging from the soffit of an arch.
- fan tracery: Tracery on the soffit of a vault whose ribs radiate like the ribs of a fan.
- fanwork: Also see fan tracery.
- feathering: The cusping of tracery; the elaboration of tracery by means of cusps. The term is not common; introduced in the early years of mediaeval archaeological research, it has been generally replaced by foliation.
- fish bladder: An ornamental motif of late Gothic tracery, reminiscent in form of the air-bladder of fish.
- fish-bladder: Form found in Second-Pointed Curvilinear tracery looking like a tadpole, with a round or pointed head and a curving pointed tail, also called mouchette: apparently from the German Fischblase, referring to comma shapes in Sondergotik tracery.
- flowing: See tracery.
- flowing tracery: Tracery in which continuous, curvilinear patterns (largely ogees) dominate. A characteristic feature of the Decorated and Flamboyant styles.
- foil: Any of several arcs or rounded spaces divided by cusps and tangent to the interior of a larger arc, as of an arch or circle.
- foiled: Decorated with foils.
- foils: Any of several arcs or rounded spaces divided by cusps and tangent to the interior of a larger arc, as of an arch or circle.
- foliated: Using small arcs or foils in tracery.
- forma: Stall. 2. Mold, pattern, or template. 3. Gothic, tracery, hence form-piece.
- form-pieces: A medieval term for tracery.
- geometric tracery: Gothic openwork in the form of simple geometrical patterns, principally circles and multifoils.
- geometrical decorated: In English architecture, belonging to the Decorated style characteristic of the 13th century, and having much geometrical tracery. The term is one of many attempts at a minute and classified nomenclature which it is probably impossible to secure.
- geometrical tracery: Gothic openwork in the form of simple geometrical patterns, principally circles and multifoils.
- intersecting: See arch; tracery.
- intersecting tracery: Tracery formed by the curving upward, forking, and continuation of the mullions, springing from alternate mullions or from every third mullion and intersecting each other.
- Kentish tracery: Circumscribed tracery motif, with foils separated by barbs or with forked cusps.
- lobe: A segment of a circle in tracery; a foil.
- lobes: Of Gothic tracery, a foil.
- multifoil: Having more than five foils, lobs, or arcuate divisions.
- net tracery: Tracery with repetitive motifs or openings.
- panel tracery: Decoration found on panels.
- pentacle: In Gothic tracery a five-pointed star motif with a pentagon in the center.
- pentalpha: In Gothic tracery a five-pointed star motif with a pentagon in the center.
- perforated tracery: Tracery with repetitive motifs or openings.
- perpendicular tracery: Also see rectilinear tracery.
- plate tracery: Tracery formed by piercing a single large stone.
- plate-tracery: See tracery.
- polyfoil: With many foils, also multifoil.
- quarterfoil: Also see quatrefoil.
- quatrefoil tracery: Gothic openwork with quatrefoil form.
- quatrefoill: Four-arc opening in Gothic tracery. 2 four-lobed decorative motif.
- quinquefoil: Also see cinquefoil.
- quintefoil: Same as cinquefoil.
- rectilinear tracery: Also see perpendicular tracery.
- reticulated tracery: Tracery whose openings are repetitive like the meshes of a net.
- sexfoil: A foil having six points.
- stump tracery: Tracery, late German Gothic whose interpenetrating bars are cut off like stumps.
- tracing-house: Place where a medieval mason drew out details of tracery, moldings, etc., for those working under his direction.
- trefoil: A design of three lobes, similar to a cloverleaf.
- trilobate: With three lobes: a trefoil.
- undulating: Curvilinear or Flowing tracery. 2. Undulate band molding, guilloche, oundy, undé, undy, wave-scroll or Vitruvian scroll.
- undulating tracery: See flowing tracery.
- wheel tracery: Tracery radiating from a center, as the spokes of a wheel.
- wye tracery: A type of tracery in which the mullions split in the shape of the letter Y.
- Y: See tracery.
- Y-tracery: A type of tracery in which the mullions split in the shape of the letter Y.
Also see Architecture index.