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sexfoil, a. and n.|ˈsɛksfɔɪl|
[f. sex-, after trefoil, cinquefoil.]
A. adj. Having six foliations.
1848Rickman's Styles Archit. Introd. 26 A small sexfoil gable window. 1906Proc. Soc. Antiq. 6 Dec. 261 The chalice is 59/16 inches high, with a sexfoil foot. 1907E. A. Jones Ch. Plate I. Man Introd. 16 The sexfoil depression is superseded..by a single circular depression.
B. n. Arch. and Her. = sixfoil.
1688Holme Armoury ii. iv. 60 He beareth Argent, a Sexfoile, or a Sisefoile, Sable. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. I, Sexfoil, or Sisefoil, is a grass, or flower, with six leaves, formed like the cinquefoil which has five. 1851Pugin Chancel Screens 85 With images of angels in sexfoils. |