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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large circular window, usually glazed with stained glass, having stone tracery radiating from the center, often with intricate petallike patterns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a circular window divided into compartments by mullions or tracery radiating or branching from a center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A generic term applied to a
circular window, but especially used for those found in churches of theGothic architectural style and divided into segments by stonemullions andtracery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun circular window filled with tracery
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