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  • n  decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs

  • Luminous green fields of young poppy plants spread for miles in every direction, punctuated by a few tiny plots scored with the delicate brown tracery of bulldozer tracks.
  • Waters from holy streams course alongside it, and towering stands of prayer flags cover it with a tracery of spiny shadows in the low light of early evening.
  • The first novel by Raymond Chandler, who at the time was a 51-year-old former oil company executive, is a mosaic of shadows, a dark tracery of forking paths.
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  • Mosaic house project? Family has it covered
    LOS ANGELES -- The transformation started simply enough, with a molded ceramic tile of a flower framed by Celtic tracery.
    Feb. 15, 2014 - The Pantagraph
  • A journey of many tiles
    LOS ANGELES: The transformation started simply enough, with a molded ceramic tile of a flower framed by Celtic tracery.
    Feb. 14, 2014 - The Salinas Californian

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