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Rectilinear style

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The last style in English Gothic architecture, characterized by tracery in which the pattern is formed by multiplying the mullions in the upper part of the window and by a general tendency to stress vertical moldings. (Whiffen, 1969)

Synonyms:
perpendicular style
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