fan tracery

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   the carved tracery on fan vaulting

   Broadertracery

   Part offan vaulting

Questions about fan tracery

What does fan tracery mean?

fan tracery means "the carved tracery on fan vaulting".

Is fan tracery a common word?

fan tracery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.