Stump tracery


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(Arch.) a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump.

See also: Stump

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.