Cast-iron gothic tracery supports a bridge by Calvert Vaux, Central Park, New York City ...
a teardrop-shaped Gothic tracery design.
moya
central area of a traditional building, often surrounded by peripheral areas known as hisashi; the term moya also refers to a rafter support ...
CUSP: the point formed by the meeting of two arcs in Gothic tracery. DADO: the lower part of a screen, wall, or other vertical architectural surface, usually divided from the upper parts by a DADO RAIL.
Branch tracery : A form, of Gothic tracery in Germany in the late 15th and early 16th cent; made to imitate rustic work with boughs and knots.
Fan tracery / fanwork: Tracery on the soffit of a vault whose ribs radiate like the ribs of fan.
mouchette - a teardrop-shaped Gothic tracery design.
pendant - a decorative piece (made of masonry or turned wood) suspended from a roof or vergeboard: used especially in Gothic architecture (p. 30 -roofing gable tops, p.
MOUCHETTE A motif resembling a curved dragger, in Gothic tracery of the curvilinear style.
MULLION A vertical divider in a window.
NARTHEX The entrance hall that stretches across the church's main entrance.
Cusp
- projecting point formed by the meeting of foils in Gothic tracery . Early cusps were solid, later ones were often pierced and later still, they were frequently enriched by carving.
Cusp - Projecting points formed at the meeting of the foils in Gothic Tracery, etc.
Cyma recta - A double-curved moulding, concave above and convex below; also called an ogee moulding.
3. Architecture Decoration of an opening with cusps and foils, as in Gothic tracery.
4.
a. The act, process, or product of forming metal into thin leaf or foil.
In later architect-designed churches, this glazing was replaced by correct Gothic tracery, but many such windows can be found around the province.
 See also: Tracery, Gothic, Architecture, Ornament, Frame
  
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