mouchette Archit.
(muːˈʃɛt)
[a. Fr.]
A motif in curvilinear tracery having the shape of a curved dagger.
| 1927 Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. LX. 388 The space under the arch bears an heraldic shield supported by a composition of soufflets and mouchettes. 1949 Archit. Rev. CV. 4/1 The mouchettes of the Court School are equally distinctive... They change only within certain fixed limits,..and yet in a very subtle manner the mouchettes create changes of style. 1955 M. Hastings St Stephen's Chapel 179 The fan tracery of Henry VII's chapel is no more than an extremely elaborate combination of mouchettes. 1967 J. B. Nellist Brit. Archit. ii. 43/1 The elaborate tracery is almost entirely composed of mouchette shapes. |