noun
definition
A symmetrical shape that forms the overall outline of four partially-overlapping circles of the same diameter.
definition
A stylized flower or leaf with four lobes.
Examples of quatrefoil in a Sentence
The aureola, when enveloping the whole body, is generally oval or elliptical in form, but is occasionally circular or quatrefoil.
Above the door is a double lancet window with quatrefoil tracery.
A quatrefoil chapel on the east side of the basilica is a Byzantine addition.
The gallery now has trefoiled sub-arches and a quatrefoil pierced through the tympanum.
A quatrefoil light is set high up in gable.
A rood loft was also added, approached by a stair on the north side lit by a quatrefoil window.
Roof similar to nave but all arch-braced collars (6), and four tiers of quatrefoil windbraces.
These include quatrefoil panels of the same pattern as is found in the west window.
One of the windows has incised ' AMDG 1868 ' around the quatrefoil above the main lights.
The tower is embattled, and has belfry windows of two trefoiled lights with a quatrefoil in the head.
All along the aisles is blank arcading with trefoil arches and a blank elongated rounded quatrefoil in the spandrel.
Left end adjoins No. 46 whilst right end has a 2 light both floors and framing forming quatrefoil in gable.
Wagon roof of 24 panels, the wall plates with quatrefoil friezes.
The pendant is quatrefoil in plan, with a small knop at each corner junction.
The simple wagon roof of two bays is coved with decorated purlins, molded ribs and quatrefoil tracery.
Buttressed north aisle with hoodmoulds with corbel heads to its 3 windows which have quatrefoil above 3 trefoiled lights.
The C19 century figure of Christ in the tympanum is placed in a large pointed quatrefoil.