noun
the carved tracery on fan vaulting
• Hypernyms: ↑tracery
• Part Holonyms: ↑fan vaulting
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noun : decorative tracery on fan vaulting
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fan tracery or fan vaulting noun (architecture)
Tracery rising from a capital or a corbel, and diverging like the folds of a fan over the surface of a vault
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Main Entry: ↑fan
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fan tracery,
Architecture. tracery used to decorate fan vaulting, consisting of diverging ribs like those of an opened fan.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.