Decorated Style
The second of the three distinctive architectural styles of England's cathedrals, the first being Early English, the later, Perpendicular.
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Flowing tracery of windows as seen in the latter period of the Decorated style.
Cusp
Projecting points in Gothic arches and tracery.
KEEL-MOULDING, in architecture, a round on which there is a small fillet, somewhat like the keel of a ship. It is common in the Early English and Decorated styles.
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Reticulated
A type of window tracery which has a net-like pattern formed by a series of inter-linked ogee arches. It was common in the early 14th-century Decorated style (from Latin opus reticulatum: net or lace-work).
 See also: Architecture, Decorated, Gothic, Early english, Church
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