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fan tracery

fan tracery noun: tracery rising from a capital or a corbel, and diverging like the folds of a fan over the surface of a vault.

Noun

fan tracery (countable and uncountable, plural fan traceries)

  1. Tracery rising from a capital or a corbel, and diverging like the folds of a fan over the surface of a vault.

Forms of fan tracery

pluralfan traceries

Questions about fan tracery

What does fan tracery mean?
Fan tracery means tracery rising from a capital or a corbel, and diverging like the folds of a fan over the surface of a vault.
What part of speech is fan tracery?
Fan tracery is a noun.
What is the plural of fan tracery?
The plural of fan tracery is fan traceries.

Words near fan tracery in the dictionary

  1. fan signs
  2. fan the fire
  3. fan the flame
  4. fan the flames
  5. fan traceries
  6. fan tracery
  7. fan zone
  8. fan zones
  9. fan-assisted oven
  10. fan-assisted ovens
  11. fan-blast

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