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Meaning of "quatrefoil"

quatrefoil is a decorative element or design featuring a symmetrical four-lobed clover shape
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  • A symmetrical shape that forms the overall outline of four partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter.
  • A stylized flower or leaf with four lobes.

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The fourfold version of an architectural trefoil is a quatrefoil.
A quatrefoil pierced parapet has gargoyles at the corner.
The handle ends with a scrolled quatrefoil.
Quatrefoil reentry can be understood qualitatively using a simple cellular automaton.
At the summit is a pierced quatrefoil parapet.
The quatrefoil enjoyed its peak popularity during the Gothic and Renaissance eras.
The windows in the nave have quatrefoil heads.
A unique quatrefoil Martello Tower stands at the isthmus leading to the Orford Ness shingle spit.
Below the parapet are gargoyles and a quatrefoil frieze.
Thus, quatrefoil seems to be associated with water rituals.
It is extensively embellished with pinnacles and quatrefoil panel bands.
In the quatrefoil above, a crown signifies victory over death.
The arcades are carried on alternate octagonal and quatrefoil columns.
The trefoil, quatrefoil and cinquefoil are abstract forms resembling flowers or leaves.
He built it next to the southern apse in the form of a quatrefoil.

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A circular leadlight window with central quatrefoil is located at the top of the gable.
It consists of a square column with a pyramidal cap on a quatrefoil base.
The church is quatrefoil in plan, with an octagonal central bay originally with a dome above.
In the clerestory are quatrefoil windows.
The double lancet of the organ chamber gable is surmounted by a quatrefoil.
The gable is jettied and contains two rows of quatrefoil panels and a carved bargeboard.
On the east gable of the nave is a double bellcote, over which is a pierced quatrefoil.
It is lit by two double-light windows with quatrefoil transom under their arched heads.
In the north and south walls of the transepts are paired lancets, and a quatrefoil above.
The whole is highly decorated with quatrefoil motifs, columns, trefoil motifs and bands of diapering.
Tubes typically extend through support plates at quatrefoil holes.
Above these are a quatrefoil frieze, gargoyles, a battlemented parapet, and eight pinnacles.
The tower is in four stages on a plinth decorated with quatrefoil ornament.
There is also a quatrefoil and a sexfoil ( six-lobed round window ) in this wall.
The base of each truss is decorated with a quatrefoil circular infill.
The symmetrical quatrefoil shape with a large circular central space seats 7,000 persons.
Between the string course and the parapet are quatrefoil windows.
The south doors comprise 28 quatrefoil panels depicting scenes from St. John 's life.
Separating the nave and chancel is a spindly nineteenth century screen with quatrefoil piercings.
The northern-most tower at Aldeburgh is of quatrefoil design, i.e. four in one.
Izapa Stela 8 shows a ruler seated on a throne, which is located within a quatrefoil.
It was built in the Romanesque style with a quatrefoil floor plan, around 1260.
Its shape in cross Greek is known as quatrefoil.
These are supported on columns which are alternately clustered, with quatrefoil designs, and octagonal.
The building creates a tower whose top is adorned by the chapel 's quatrefoil window.
The tower has a south entrance with a pointed tympanum containing a quatrefoil and crossed keys.
The cornice, pediment and balustrade feature quatrefoil motifs.
Inside the church, the arcades are carried on quatrefoil columns.
In the transept are two lancet windows, over which is a quatrefoil window.
Akbar introduced coins with decorative floral motifs, dotted borders, quatrefoil and other types.
The capital is formed of double " dagger " and single quatrefoil windows.
There are 640 panels each carved with the same quatrefoil design.

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