trefoil

• “Alberic, you do realize any trefoil is considered magical.” He shuddered and sighed. —  MIDNIGHT MAGIC
• Friedman combined these by twisting wire to form the simplest knot there is - an overhand knot mathematicians call a trefoil - and then dipping it into soapy water. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
• For her services in this hospital she received from the officers and men a gold medal--a trefoil, beautifully engraved, and with an appropriate inscription. —  Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
• In the upper stage, instead of a triforium and clerestory, there are three tall windows of two lights each, the central being carried above the others, and distinguished by a more ornate tracery, here taking a cruciform pattern above the trefoil-headed divisions, instead of a foliated circle as in the side windows. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less
• The outer mouldings of the centre gable are enriched with foliated crocketing with which is intermixed the early church symbol--pelican feeding her young--and the apex surmounted by a figure of our Lord enthroned: the inner portion of the gable contains, in a trefoil, a basso-relievo of the Annunciation, in alabaster. —  Ely Cathedral

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