Meaning

(architecture) Fan tracery..

Definitions by Sense

1. (architecture) Fan tracery.
2. A fan-shaped network of lines or projections.
3. A creative work produced by a fan, based on a book, movie, television show, musical group, etc.

Example Sentences

The chapel — a soaring, slender-shafted building, with fanwork upon its roof and an apse deep and pointed — seemed full of light, withal it was hung with black velvet.

There were bits of a vaulted roof with panelled fanwork and moulded ribs, recalling the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster.

Now the Grand High Witch removes her mask and wig: A hideous beak and a decrepit bodice of skin and bones, like the stone ceiling fanwork in a Gothic chamber, her blotchy scalp a moonscape fermenting cobwebs.

He smiled again, easily, dimples creasing his cheeks, and a tiny fanwork of lines crinkled the corners of his dark eyes.

The bud vase lay on its side near the bush; a lacy fanwork of roots had spread out over the tabletop, following the path of the spilled water.

He had three lines running across his forehead, and a fanwork of them radiating from the corner of each eye.

William saw Michaela's fanwork of The Powerpuff Girls, her favorite TV show of all time.

The result is a proliferation of fanworks that explore narratives of transgression as fans play with the permissibility of Supernatural's supernatural world.

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