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- noun Plural form of
cinqfoil .
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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 John Ruskin 1859
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The name of the pea, for instance (alata), is to be learned first among the twelve cinqfoils, p. 214, above; then transferred to its botanical place.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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