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  1. In architecture, the second period of English
  2. Gothic, covering the latter part of the 13th
  3. century and the 14th century. Chief
  4. characteristics include ornate window
  5. tracery, the window being divided into
  6. several lights by vertical bars called
  7. mullions; sharp spires ornamented with
  8. crockets and pinnacles; complex church
  9. vaulting; and slender arcade piers. Exeter
  10. Cathedral is a notable example.
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