not vegetating, as in Germany, butblazing from the foundation to the bristling finials. Thedifference between this style of tracey and our own flowingstyle (exemplified in the west window at York), is, that whilethe upper ends of our loops or leaves are round or simplypointed, i. e., with finite… … English leaf-tracery. French flamboyant tracery. tangential ; but to the flame-like effect, that the upper onesshould be so, even if the lower were finite ; and hence someexamples of flamboyant tracery, turned upside down, form akind of leaf-tracery. Our countrymen, however, adopted a method which…
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