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quatrefoil

/ˈkatrəfɔɪl

noun

An ornamental design of four lobes or leaves as used in architectural tracery, resembling a flower or clover leaf.In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches....

Both artists represented what has come to be called the small-pattern Holbein type, which has a field of offset alternating rows of strapwork octagons and quatrefoils that vary in number in carpets of different sizes.
At the tops of the windows, the artist has fun with the trefoils and quatrefoils, turning one into a black flower with yellow petals and another into a hovering cartoonlike form ringed by orange dots.

Origin

Late 15th century: from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French quatre 'four' + foil 'leaf'.

单词	quatrefoil
释义	quatrefoil /ˈkatrəfɔɪl / noun An ornamental design of four lobes or leaves as used in architectural tracery, resembling a flower or clover leaf.In addition, the top areas of the main windows are decorated with stone tracery describing trefoils, quatrefoils and Moorish arches.... Both artists represented what has come to be called the small-pattern Holbein type, which has a field of offset alternating rows of strapwork octagons and quatrefoils that vary in number in carpets of different sizes. At the tops of the windows, the artist has fun with the trefoils and quatrefoils, turning one into a black flower with yellow petals and another into a hovering cartoonlike form ringed by orange dots. Origin Late 15th century: from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French quatre 'four' + foil 'leaf'.
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