- rose windows
Circular windows containing patterned tracery, particularly stained glass windows that are divided into compartments by mullions radiating from a center, or filled with tracery suggestive of the form of a rose or wheel.
rose windows
Seen mainly in Gothic architecture, rose windows are circular windows with symmetrical decorative tracery resembling the petals of a flower. Wheel windows, which have simpler tracery resembling spokes, are a sub-type of rose window.
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