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Curvilinear tracery
Also called flowing tracery, Flamboyant
Flowing tracery of ogees, daggers and mouchettes, of English Decorated (c. 1290–1370) and French Flamboyant.
See also: Ogee
Rules that use the word
Plate, geometric, curvilinear, perpendicular. Date a Gothic window by its tracery: openings pierced through a plate (twelfth century); geometric bar tracery of circles and foils (thirteenth); flowing curvilinear tracery of ogees and daggers (fourteenth); and, in England, perpendicular panel tracery with mullions running straight up into the arch (late fourteenth to sixteenth).
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