Tracery

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Ornamental work with rambled lines.

II. Tracery ·noun The decorative head of a Gothic window.

III. Tracery ·noun A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.

IV. Tracery ·add. ·noun A tracing of lines; a system of lines produced by, or as if by, tracing, ·esp. when interweaving or branching out in ornamental or graceful figures.