quatrefoil

• In the second place, it is a quite open and flat quatrefoil--so separating itself from the belled quadrature of the heath, and the tubed and primrose-like quadrature of the cruciferć; and, both as a quatrefoil, and as an open one, it is separated from the foxgloves and snapdragons, which are neither quatrefoils, nor open; but are cinqfoils shut up 8. —  Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
• Within the quatrefoil was a seated Figure, with something like scales in one hand, apparently representing our Lord in His glory. —  John Keble's Parishes
• In the head of the larger arch is a quatrefoil, at the bottom of which are two carved brackets for sculpture. —  The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
• Above the quatrefoil is another representing the Redeemer seated on a cushioned throne with the Virgin, and below another representing St. Michael overcoming Satan. —  Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
• In the second place, it is a quite open and flat quatrefoil -- so separating itself from the belled quadrature of the heath, and the tubed and primrose-like quadrature of the cruciferæ; and, both as a quatrefoil, and as an open one, it is separated from the foxgloves and snapdragons, which are neither quatrefoils, nor open; but are cinqfoils shut up! —  Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers

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