MEANING
A decorative shape or opening made from four rounded lobes, like four joined leaves.
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Words that belong together
- quatrefoil tracery
- carved quatrefoil
On the page
A quatrefoil opening admitted a small patch of sky.
Quatrefoils repeated along the carved screen.
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Word forms
- Base
- quatrefoil
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular quatrefoil; plural quatrefoils. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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