triskelion

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  1. noun A figure consisting of three curved lines or branches, or three stylized human arms or legs, radiating from a common center.

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  • Occasionally they did not address him at all in the Lord High Artificer's presence, as if he were no more than a hanger-on, a dogsbody, a servant to Urza Even when the artificer made sure to mention Tawnos's inventions such as the triskelion, a mobile fortification, the eyes of the nobles glazed over and Tawnos could almost hear their ears clicking off No, thought Tawnos, worst of all were the stiff collars. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • (Unrated) Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho direct the three separate strands of this curious homage to Tokyo, a triskelion offering distinctly different perspectives of life inside the teeming city that could. —  Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek triskelēs, three-legged : tri-, tri- + skelos, leg.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek τρισκελής, three-legged.
 

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/trɪsˈkilɪn/
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