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quatrefoil

[ kat-er-foil, ka-truh- ]

noun

  1. a leaf composed of four leaflets.
  2. Architecture. a panellike ornament composed of four lobes, divided by cusps, radiating from a common center.


quatrefoil

/ ˈ°ìæ³Ù°ùəˌ´Úɔɪ±ô /

noun

  1. a leaf composed of four leaflets
  2. architect a carved ornament having four foils arranged about a common centre, esp one used in tracery
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quatrefoil1

1375–1425; Middle English < Middle French quatre four + -foil (as in trefoil )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quatrefoil1

C15: from Old French, from quatre four + -foil leaflet; compare trefoil
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Example Sentences

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The word “command†appears on Apple Macintosh keyboards, along with a quatrefoil icon that some people call the “splat†key.

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Inside, it is decorated with a medallion at the bottom and a quatrefoil motif surrounded by flowers.

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Inside, it is decorated with a medallion at the bottom and a quatrefoil motif surrounded by flowers.

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They quickly became Vuitton trunk connoisseurs; the company created one with a built-in 29-piece tea service and, in 1896, introduced its quatrefoil logo, inspired by a Japanese mon, a crest used to represent a family or enterprise.

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In paintings from the last year or so, viewable in person and online, Mr. Isensee’s lines of color curve, bulge and undulate, forming gorgeous often quatrefoil patterns that evoke gears, jacks and also intarsia Renaissance tables, their inlaid stone updated with a cartoonish bounce.

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